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Introduction to System Modeling

  • Defining a system model
  • The four core elements of system modeling
  • Model-centric versus document-centric approaches
  • An overview of SysML
  • The relationship between SysML and UML
  • The four core elements of SysML

Common and Crosscutting Elements

  • Profiles, stereotypes, and tags
  • Diagram frames
  • Comments
  • Allocations

Package Diagrams

  • Definition of a package
  • Organizing models using packages
  • Package containment
  • Package dependencies
  • Depicting model structure
  • Views and viewpoints

Requirement Diagrams

  • Defining a requirement
  • Modeling atomic requirements
  • Requirement traceability

Use Case Diagrams

  • Viewing the system as a black box
  • Defining system boundaries with actors
  • Use cases as system services
  • The context of use case diagrams
  • Use case structure · Nominal and alternative scenarios
  • Managing common behaviors
  • Extended and specialized behaviors

Activity Diagrams

  • Modeling flow-based logic
  • Distinguishing actions from activities
  • Comprehending token flow
  • Control flow versus object flow
  • Modeling decisions · Modeling concurrency
  • Swimlanes and responsibility

Block Definition Diagrams

  • Definition of a block
  • Block features
  • Modeling types
  • Modeling system hierarchy
  • Generalizing system elements

Internal Block Diagrams

  • Parts revisited
  • Ports with flow properties
  • Standard ports and interfaces
  • Proxy ports and interface blocks
  • Full ports

Parametric Diagrams

  • Definition of a constraint block
  • Constraining system properties

Sequence Diagrams

  • Interaction-based behavior
  • Simple sequences
  • Synchronous versus asynchronous
  • Fragment nodes
  • Interaction use nodes

State Machine Diagrams

  • States and their syntax
  • Transitions between states
  • Pseudo-state notation (initial, decision, history, end)
  • Decomposing states
  • Modeling concurrent states

System Modeling Resources and Further Reading

  • Suggested online resources
  • Recommended literature

Requirements

Prospective students do not need prior experience with system modeling; however, they are expected to possess a strong understanding of "document-centric" systems engineering methodologies.

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