A fresh view on model-based systems engineering: The processing system paradigm

摘要

Model-based systems engineering and graphical notations have an enormous potential for increasing design productivity, system quality and lifetime by shifting the bulk of design efforts to early phases. In spite of that this is hardly questioned, the shift towards model-based approaches has not come to a break through, as we are experiencing in software engineering. It is believed that a major reason is lack of a common system view that can act as a framework for developing modelling languages and methods for a broad community of system engineers.rnThis paper suggests such a framework. It identifies the systems of concern as a processing system that consist of a process control system and a resource system, and applies two related views on processing systems: A functional view and a solution view. The framework has been successfully tested on telecommunication systems and networks for some years. It is believed that it holds for many other system domains as well.