UAF (Unified Architecture Framework) architecture models provide a means to develop an understanding of the complex systems and the relationships that exist between organizations, systems, and systems-of-systems and enable the analysis of these systems to ensure that they meet the expectations of the user community.
The UAF is based on UPDM 3.0 and the UML/SysML in military communities. Value propositions are to develop standardized and consistent enterprise architectures based on the U.S. Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) and the UK Ministry of Defense Architecture Framework (MODAF) and as well as the NAF (NATO Architecture Framework).
UAF defines ways of representing an enterprise architecture that enables stakeholders to focus on specific areas of interest in the enterprise while retaining sight of the big picture.
An architecture framework is an encapsulation of a minimum set of practices and requirements for artifacts that describe a system’s architecture. Models are representations of how objects in a system fit structurally in and behave as part of the system. Views are a partial expression of the system from a particular perspective. A viewpoint is a set of representations (views and models) of an architecture that covers a stakeholder’s issues.
Analysts have remarked that the beauty of UAF is that UAF architecture models provide a means to develop an understanding of the complex relationships that exist between organizations, systems, and systems-of-systems and enable the analysis of these systems to ensure that they meet the expectations of the user community.
For managers, UAF architecture models provide a means to develop an understanding of the complex systems and the relationships that exist between organizations, systems, and systems-of-systems and enable the analysis of these systems to ensure that they meet the expectations of the user community.
UAF provides a set of rules to enable users to create consistent enterprise architectures (as models) based on generic enterprise and system concepts with rich semantics. These models then become the repositories from which various views can be extracted.
Want to learn more? Tonex offers UAF Training, a 3-day course that covers modeling of complex systems, System of Systems (SoS), aerospace, military and advanced deep space applications.
The class consists of pedagogical elements that are interwoven to maximize the use of individual, group and class time. These elements include lectures, in-class activities, group assignments, and problem scenarios to role play and find solutions.
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