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Model-based systems engineering with requirements variability for embedded real-time systems

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posted on 2016-06-15, 10:33 authored by Mole Li, Firat BatmazFirat Batmaz, Lin GuanLin Guan, Alan Grigg, Matthew Ingham, Peter Bull
Product Line Engineering (PLE) offers the benefits of reducing costs and time to market by reusing requirements and components. Current PLE methods, however, mainly focus on the software aspects and are lacking in support for many system level concerns like physical and non-functional require-ments (Quality of Service attributes) that play an important role in the development of Embedded Real-Time Systems (RTS). This paper proposes a new method to support a combination of variability modelling (a key feature of PLE) and model-based requirement engineering (in SysML) for Embedded RTS. It provides four main contributions: 1. it extends the Orthogonal Variability Model (OVM) to support the separation of function-al, physical and non-functional variability; 2. it proposes a mechanism for the evolution of variability; 3. stakeholders' specifications for variable requirements are extended by the proposed approach; 4. it increases the consistency of system models by directly using SysML Activity Diagrams and Block Definition Diagrams as a base model for refining variability models for requirement representation. The proposed method is illustrated by an Aircraft Engine Control System case study.

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  • Science

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  • Computer Science

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5th International Model-Driven Requirements Engineering Workshop, MoDRE 2015 - Proceedings

Pages

36 - 45

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LI, M. ... et al., 2015. Model-based systems engineering with requirements variability for embedded real-time systems. IN: Proceedings of 2015 5th IEEE International Model-Driven Requirements Engineering Workshop (MoDRE 2015), Ottawa, Canada, 24 August 2015, pp.36-45.

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2015

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9781509001101

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  • en