To create an NOV-1 view, you can use one of the following diagrams:
- NOV-1 Free Form.
- NOV-1 High-Level Operational Concept Description.
An NOV-1 High-Level Operational Concept Description Diagram is based on the UML Composite Structure Diagram. Since it is a bit complex, the NOV-1 Free Form diagram can be used alternatively.
A Concept Role here is a property for a High-Level Operational Concept element. It represents a role that an element (the type of this property) is playing in this High-Level Operational Concept. According to the UAF specification Concept Role may represent (to have a type set as) an Operational Node, any of the Resources (System, Systems Node, etc.) or Location. The difference among Concept Role, Operational Node Concept Role and other Roles is the type or in other words, the represented element of the Concept Role.
Concept Role represents logical or physical unit of your architecture. It means that you should have those units in the architecture before creating the diagram. This approach is a bit different and may appear strange to DoDAF users, but in NAF an NOV-1 is usually created at the later stages of the architecture. For this reason we have implemented an NOV-1 Free Form diagram that is more likely what DoDAF users are used to.
To create an NOV-1 High-Level Operational Concept Description diagram
- Make sure you have NSV-1 and NOV-2 diagrams completed.
- Create Concept Roles.
- Specify the types of the Concept Roles.
- Associate Concept Roles using Arbitrary Relationships.