A diagram-centric modeling tool for systems of systems

Abstract

While System of Systems (SoS) architectures for large and complex software projects are gaining momentum, the commonly used modeling and tooling approaches are still general-purpose or oriented towards single systems. Developers could benefit from methods and tools that avoid system-centric details in favor of native SoS modeling support. This paper presents a diagram-centric modeling tool with native SoS modeling support. The demonstration will get through the three diagrams & one document used in our approach. The tool is implemented as a plugin for the Eclipse Papyrus modeling tool. The tool is showcased on a SoS to manage the interaction of users with a library. The code of the plugin is freely available via Github.