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1.4.1 Preferential System Connectivity and its Impact on Performance
Author(s) -
Flanigan David,
Dixon Jeffery
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2014.tb03136.x
Subject(s) - connection (principal bundle) , computer science , adjacency matrix , distributed computing , outcome (game theory) , theoretical computer science , mathematics , graph , geometry , mathematical economics
During the course of developing system performance requirements, the requirements engineer often refers to the connectivity between external nodes of the system in question. This connectivity is often documented in an adjacency matrix, or N 2 diagram, in order to show the one or two way connections between systems. However, there is no means to show preferential connectivity if the system had an option to connect with a different system during the course of the mission, and assess the impact of the overall performance based on the connection selected. This paper develops a means to describe and quantify the impact of the preferential connection on the final outcome through an illustrative example.