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Introduction to System Modelling

  • Defining a system model
  • The four pillars of system modelling
  • Model-centric versus document-centric approaches
  • Understanding SysML
  • The relationship between SysML and UML
  • The four pillars of SysML

Common and Crosscutting Constructs

  • Profiles, stereotypes, and tagged values
  • Diagram frames
  • Comments
  • Allocations

Package Diagrams

  • Concept of a package
  • Organising the model through packages
  • Package containment
  • Package dependencies
  • Representing model structure
  • Views and viewpoints

Requirement Diagrams

  • Understanding requirements
  • Modelling atomic requirements
  • Requirement traceability

Use Case Diagrams

  • Viewing the system as a black box
  • Defining system boundaries using actors
  • Use cases as system services
  • Insights behind the use case diagram
  • Use case structure: Nominal and alternative scenarios
  • Managing common behaviour
  • Extended and specialised behaviour

Activity Diagrams

  • Modelling flow-based logic
  • Differences between actions and activities
  • Understanding token flow
  • Control flow versus object flow
  • Modelling decisions and concurrency
  • Swimlanes and responsibility assignment

Block Definition Diagrams

  • Defining a block
  • Block features
  • Modelling types
  • Establishing system hierarchy
  • Generalising 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
  • Constraining system properties

Sequence Diagrams

  • Interaction-based behaviour
  • Simple sequences
  • Synchronous versus asynchronous messaging
  • 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

  • Suggested web resources
  • Recommended literature

Requirements

Participants enrolling in this course do not need prior experience with system modelling; however, they should possess a firm understanding of "document-centric" systems engineering approaches.

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