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A Semantic Platform Infrastructure for Requirements Traceability and System Assessment

Authors:
Parastoo Delgoshaei
Mark A. Austin
Daniel A. Veronica

Keywords: Systems Engineering; Semantic Modeling; Design Platform; Requirements; Rule Checking.

Abstract:
Abstract—This work-in-progress paper describes a new approach to requirements traceability and system assessment through the use of semantic platforms. The platform infrastructure corre- sponds to an integration of traceability mechanisms with reusable domain-specific ontologies, and associated sets of mathemati- cal/logical rules for design rule checking. Engineering system components are modeled as instances of the domain ontologies with values for their properties filled in. We expect that when the proposed infrastructure is fully developed it will enhance systems engineering practice in several ways. First, by filling the gap between system requirements and system models, semantic platforms will lower validation costs by allowing for rule checking early in design. Second, semantic platforms will support perfor- mance assessment during the system operation. Our medium- term research and development objective is semantic platform infrastructures capable of supporting the design, simulation, verification, and management of engineering systems having mixtures of discrete and continuous behavior.

Pages: 215 to 219

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: February 23, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4243

ISBN: 978-1-61208-319-3

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from February 23, 2014 to February 27, 2014