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Index
Wiley Series in Systems Engineering and Management
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Preface
About the Companion Website
Part 1: Introduction, Overview, and Basic Knowledge
Chapter 1: Introduction to Systems Engineering
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Overview of the Engineering of Systems
1.3 Approaches for Implementing Systems Engineering
1.4 Modeling Approaches for Systems Engineering
1.5 Introducing the Concept of Architectures
1.6 Requirements
1.7 System's Life Cycle
1.8 Design and Integration Process
1.9 Types of Systems
1.10 Summary
Problems
Chapter 2: Overview of the Systems Engineering Design Process
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Design Process
2.3 Key Systems Engineering Concepts
2.4 Introduction to SysML
2.5 Use of Core (Systems Engineering Tool)
2.6 Summary
Problem
Chapter 3: Modeling and SysML Modeling
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Models and Modeling
3.3 SysML Modeling
3.4 Meta-System Modeling
3.5 Static Behavioral Process Modeling with IDEF0
3.6 Dynamic Behavioral Process Modeling with EFFBDS
3.7 Structural Modeling of the System's Components
3.8 Requirements Modeling
3.9 Performance Modeling
3.10 Summary
Problems
Chapter 4: Discrete Mathematics: Sets, Relations, and Functions
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Sets
4.3 Relations
4.4 Functions
4.5 Summary
Problems
Chapter 5: Graphs and Directed Graphs (Digraphs)
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Terminology
5.3 Paths and Cycles
5.4 Connectedness
5.5 Adjacency and Reachability*
5.6 Unary Relations and Digraphs
5.7 Ordering Relations*
5.8 Isomorphisms*
5.9 Trees
5.10 Finding Cycles and Semicycles in a Graph
5.11 Revisiting IDEF0 Diagrams
5.12 Summary
Problems
Part 2: Design and Integration
Chapter 6: Requirements and Defining the Design Problem
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Requirements
6.3 Definitions
6.4 Stakeholders' Requirements Development: Defining the Design Problem
6.5 Requirements Categories
6.6 Requirements Partition
6.7 Stakeholders' Requirements Document (StkhldrsRD)
6.8 Characteristics of Sound Requirements
6.9 Writing Requirements
6.10 Operational Concept
6.11 External Systems Diagram
6.12 Objectives Hierarchy for Performance Requirements
6.13 Prototyping, Analyses, and Usability Testing
6.14 Defining the Stakeholders' Requirements
6.15 Requirements Management
6.16 Summary
Problems
Chapter 7: Functional Architecture Development
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Defining Terminology For a Functional Architecture
7.3 Functional Architecture Development
7.4 Defining a System's Functions
7.5 Development of the Functional Decomposition
7.6 Finishing the Functional Architecture
7.7 Tracing Requirements to Elements of the functional Architecture
7.8 Summary
Problems
Chapter 8: Physical Architecture Development
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Generic Versus Instantiated Physical Architectures
8.3 Overview of Physical Architecture Development
8.4 Creativity Techniques
8.5 Graphic Representations of the Physical Architecture
8.6 Issues in Physical Architecture Development
8.7 Summary
Problems
Notes
Chapter 9: Allocated Architecture Development
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Overview
9.3 Allocate Functions to Components
9.4 Trace Non-Input/Output Requirements and Derive Requirements
9.5 Define and Analyze Functional Activation And Control Structure
9.6 Conduct Performance and Risk Analyses
9.7 Document Architectures and Obtain Approval
9.8 Document Subsystem Specifications
9.9 Summary
Problems
Chapter 10: Interface Design
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Overview of Interface Development
10.3 Interface Architectures
10.4 Standards
10.5 Open Systems Interconnection Architecture
10.6 Common Object Request Broker Architecture
10.7 Interface Design Process
10.8 Summary
Problems
Chapter 11: Integration and Qualification
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Distinctions Among Acceptance, Validation, and Verification Testing
11.3 Overview of Integration
11.4 Alternate Integration Processes
11.5 Some Qualification Terminology
11.6 Defining the Qualification System
11.7 Qualification Methods
11.8 Acceptance Testing
11.9 Summary
Problems
Chapter 12: A Complete Exercise of the Systems Engineering Process
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Operational Concept
12.3 External Systems Diagram
12.4 Fundamental Objectives
12.5 Stakeholders' Requirements
12.6 Functional Architecture
12.7 Physical and Allocated Architectures
12.8 Interface Design
12.9 Integration and Qualification
12.10 Beginning the Subsystem Layer
Part 3: Supplemental Topics
Chapter 13: Graphical Modeling Techniques
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Data Modeling
13.3 Process Modeling
13.4 Behavior Modeling
13.5 Summary
Problems
Chapter 14: Decision Analysis for Design Trades
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Elements of Decision Problems
14.3 Axioms of Decision Analysis
14.4 Multiattribute Value Analysis
14.5 Uncertainty in Decisions
14.6 Sample Application
14.7 Summary
Problems
Chapter 15: The Science and Analysis of Systems
15.1 Introduction
15.2 General System Theory
15.3 Systems Science
15.4 Natural Systems
15.5 Cybernetics
15.6 Systems Thinking
15.7 Quantitative Characterization of Systems
15.8 System Dynamics
15.9 Constraint Theory
15.10 Fermi Problems and Guesstimation
15.11 Summary
Problems
Chapter 16: The Value of Systems Engineering
16.1 Introduction
16.2 Value Propositions for Systems Engineering
16.3 Summary
Appendix A: Outline of Systems Engineering Documents
Appendix B: IDEF0 Model of the Engineering of a System
Glossary
References
Historical References
Index
Wiley Series in Systems Engineering and Management
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