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Structure Preserving Transformations for Practical Model-based Systems Engineering
Siyuan Ji, Michael Wilkinson, Charles E. Dickerson
In this third decade of systems engineering in the twenty-first century, it is important to develop and demonstrate practical methods to exploit machine-readable models in the engi…
Architecture Definition in Complex System Design Using Model Theory
Charles E. Dickerson, Michael K. Wilkinson, Eugenie Hunsicker +5
Architecture Definition, which is central to system design, is one of the two most used technical processes in the practice of model-based systems engineering. In this paper a fund…
Concepts of Architecture, Structure and System
Michael K. Wilkinson, Charles E. Dickerson, Siyuan Ji
The current ISO standards pertaining to the Concepts of System and Architecture express succinct definitions of these two key terms that lend themselves to practical application an…
A Product Line Systems Engineering Process for Variability Identification and Reduction
Mole Li, Alan Grigg, Charles Dickerson +2
Software Product Line Engineering has attracted attention in the last two decades due to its promising capabilities to reduce costs and time to market through reuse of requirements…
A Formal Transformation Method for Automated Fault Tree Generation from a UML Activity Model
Charles Dickerson, Rosmira Roslan, Siyuan Ji
Fault analysis and resolution of faults should be part of any end-to-end system development process. This paper is concerned with developing a formal transformation method that map…