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Architecture Panel
Author(s) -
Dickerson Charles,
Mavris Dimitri,
Griendling Kelly
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2011.tb01191.x
Subject(s) - computer science , presentation (obstetrics) , architecture , software engineering , formalism (music) , relational model , relational database , information retrieval , medicine , art , musical , visual arts , radiology
The Architecture Panel will offer three presentations that provide an overview of model based approaches and an introduction to a new viewpoint on Architecture and Systems Engineering: A Brief History of Models and Model Based/Model Driven Approaches A Relational Orientation on Architecture and Systems Engineering ROSETTA: a Relational Oriented Systems Engineering and Technology Tradeoff Environment Time will be allowed time for questions and discussion after each presentation. The first presentation will provide a brief review of the foundational work of Tarski and Robinson on model theory and proceed quickly through the model based approaches of Wymore, Klir, Yin, and others then move through the INCOSE and OMG related initiatives on MBSE and MDA. The second presentation will introduce a new viewpoint on Systems Engineering based on mathematical relationships that is concordant with and expressive of the definition of ‘system’ specified by INCOSE and the IEEE, and the definition of ‘system architecture’ proposed by the ISO working group JTC1/SC7/WG42. This viewpoint will be referred to as Relational Oriented Systems Engineering (ROSE). In this viewpoint, relational models and their transformations are the means for abstracting systems and their engineering and design concepts. The concept of ‘definition and decomposition’ in Systems Engineering can be expressed more precisely as the formalism of ‘model specification and relational transformation’ in ROSE. The closing presentation builds on the Rosetta stone that provided a means to translate between the Greek, Hieroglyphics, and Egyptian demotic languages by exploiting a decree that provided a common text repeated in all three languages. In the same way, the ROSE Technology Tradeoff Analysis environment (ROSETTA) provides a means to translate between theoretical mathematics, subject‐matter expert driven analysis, and modeling and simulation by representing single problems using all three types of analysis while highlighting the commonalities and differences between the three different approaches to the problem. ROSETTA leverages ROSE to create a direct mapping between the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) methodology and standard quantitative conceptual design space exploration techniques leveraged in technology forecasting and trade studies.