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A Conceptual Framework for Defining an Enactable Systems Engineering Process
Author(s) -
Adhikari Sam B.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.1994.tb01773.x
Subject(s) - process (computing) , computer science , software engineering , notation , systems engineering , programming language , engineering , linguistics , philosophy
This article presents a conceptual framework for defining an enactable System Engineering process. The framework is based on the three primary entity types in a systems engineering process: Activities, Agents and Artifacts (AAA). AAA entity classes possess relationship within and between them. When process behavior is added to entities and relationships, dynamic systems engineering processes are created. Process definition of enactable system engineering processes can be defined via textual descriptions, IDEF/SADT or ETVX type notations, AAA or APPL/A type of process programming languages. This eventually results in the virtual machine that enacts the process code.