Tools and techniques for evaluating control architecture

This paper describes an independent research and development project at Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories. The project developed an approach to evaluate alternative architectures that control large-scale, networked systems whose components may or may not be independent and whose activities are distributed in time and space. We overview the approach and discuss how it can evaluate alternative architectures for control of large-scale, distributed systems and for analysis of approaches for recovery from various system failure modes.