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Introduction to System Modelling

  • Defining the system model
  • The four core tenets of system modelling
  • Model-centric versus document-centric approaches
  • An overview of SysML
  • The connection between SysML and UML
  • The four core tenets of SysML

Common and Cross-cutting Constructs

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

Package Diagrams

  • Understanding packages
  • Organizing the model via packages
  • Package containment
  • Package dependencies
  • Visualizing model structure
  • Views and viewpoints

Requirement Diagrams

  • Defining requirements
  • Modelling atomic requirements
  • Requirement traceability

Use Case Diagrams

  • The system as a black box
  • Defining system boundaries with actors
  • Use cases as system services
  • Internal aspects of use case diagrams
  • Use case structure · Nominal and alternative scenarios
  • Managing shared behaviour
  • Extended and specialized behaviour

Activity Diagrams

  • Capturing flow-based logic
  • Distinction between actions and activities
  • Grasping token flow
  • Control flow versus object flow
  • Capturing decisions · Modelling concurrency
  • Swimlanes and responsibility

Block Definition Diagrams

  • Understanding blocks
  • Block features
  • Modelling types
  • Modelling system hierarchy
  • Generalizing system elements

Internal Block Diagrams

  • Revisiting parts
  • Ports with flow properties
  • Standard ports and interfaces
  • Proxy ports and interface blocks
  • Full ports

Parametric Diagrams

  • Understanding constraint blocks
  • Defining constraints on system properties

Sequence Diagrams

  • Interaction-driven behaviour
  • Basic sequences
  • Synchronous versus asynchronous interactions
  • Fragment nodes
  • Interaction use nodes

State Machine Diagrams

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

System Modelling Resources and Further Reading

  • Recommended web resources
  • Suggested literature

Requirements

While prior experience with system modelling is not mandatory for students joining this course, a strong command of “document-centric” systems engineering practices is expected.

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