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This article intends to shed new light on the system design process. We here suggest the possibility of combining simulation features of an executable meta-language called Object-Process Network (OPN) with the descriptive power of well-known modeling languages such as Object-Process Methodology (OPM), Structured Analysis (SA) or SysML. In the Systems Architecture domain, a great issue one always faces is the great number of options to be considered when designing a system. We must keep in mind that modeling the space of options is actually different from modeling the system of interest. The traditional modeling tools allow us to specify a unique solution, when we should consider the whole set of feasible architectures. On the other hand, OPN is able to help architects to assess all these possible configurations but, as a decision-support tool, it doesn’t offer the descriptive power OPM, SA and SysML do.
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7.1 Book Titles
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7.2 Papers
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Simona, F., Pinheiro, G., Loureiro, G. (2007). Towards Automatic Systems Architecting. In: Loureiro, G., Curran, R. (eds) Complex Systems Concurrent Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-976-7_14
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