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System Design and the Design Process

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This chapter discusses the importance of models and processes associated with decision-making in system design. It begins by introducing the reader to a general process that applies to a variety of domains (for example, system design, drug counseling with teenagers, financial planning, buying products and services). Then it describes abstraction, which is the basis of all design. Our system design process comes next with a simple example that illuminates the key aspects of design. In subsequent sections, we go into progressively greater detail of the system design process. Finally, the designs are documented with diagrams from traditional system design, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and the Systems Modeling Language (SysML).

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  1. Systems and Industrial Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

    A. Terry Bahill

  2. Astronautical Engineering Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Azad M. Madni

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Bahill, A.T., Madni, A.M. (2017). System Design and the Design Process. In: Tradeoff Decisions in System Design. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43712-5_1

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