Modeling Time in DoDAF Compliant Executable Architectures

The paper describes some challenges andpitfalls in the derivation of the executable model from the DoDAF products, especially when temporal and queuing issues are involved. The presence of ambiguities or lack of information in the architecture description may result in different modeling assumptions for the executable model being constructed. These assumptions – untraceable to the information contained in the DoDAF products – are shown to yield models with a variety of behavioral properties. The paper describes some of these cases with the help of an illustrative example.