Systems Architecture and Modeling
A special issue of Systems (ISSN 2079-8954).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2020) | Viewed by 230
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent surveys on the state of model-based systems engineering support the notion that structured modelling is highly conducive to the practice of systems architecture and requirements traceability and flowdown. ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010:2011 defines architecture as the “fundamental concepts or properties of a system in its environment embodied in its elements, relationships, and in the principles of its design and evolution”. Representing these concepts, elements, relationships, and principles of complex systems in tools more rigorous than office drawing and sketching environments that contain syntax and semantics has become critical to the success of systems engineering, as well as the realization of the digital transformation occurring throughout industry.
This Special Issue is focused on presenting the latest thought and practice relative to model-based systems architecting. Papers are being sought in the following areas but not limited to:
- Model-based systems architecting;
- Validating systems architecture using models;
- Improved systems requirement flowdown using MBSA;
- MBSA patterns;
- Documenting patterns for reuse in systems architecture;
- MBSA and the Digital Thread [Digital Enterprise, Digital Twin, etc.];
- Integrating MBSA with other digital models;
- The importance of MBSA in software intensive systems.
Dr. Robert Cloutier
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- systems architecture
- architecture patterns
- model-based systems architecture
- model-based systems engineering
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