Abstract: Resources (e.g., development budget, equipment performance) is not infinite for the plan and development of equipment system-of-systems (ESoS). Decision makers (DMs) must determine the priority of the ESoS configuration scheme under many constraints. Aiming for this problem, a structure and operation logic modeling of ESoS is analyzed. The network DEA approach describes each ESoS as a n-phase network decision unit with inputs and outputs. Secondly, the performance and cost of single equipment and ESoS combat effect are all considered. Based on this, we calculate the input-output efficiency of ESoS and consider two situations regarding the development budget. Then, with phased efficiency as evaluation indexes, the grey clustering evaluation based on the possibility function is applied to measure the ESoS configuration from the perspective of DMs. Finally, a case study verifies the feasibility and efficacy of the proposed methodology via selection decision results. The proposed method can aid DMs throughout the decision process for ESoS. 

Key words: Equipment System-of-systems(ESoS), Configuration Scheme Selection, Grey Clustering Model, Network DEA(NDEA)