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Model-Based Systems Engineering: Motivation, Current Status, and Needed Advances

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Disciplinary Convergence in Systems Engineering Research

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As systems continue to grow in scale and complexity, the Systems Engineering (SE) community has turned to the Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) paradigm for managing complexity, maintaining consistency, and assuring traceability during system development. We distinguish MBSE, which is a holistic process comprising system specification, design, validation, and configuration management, from engineering with models, which has been a common practice for centuries. Even though MBSE is beginning to see a fair amount of use in a number of industries, several advances are needed on a number of fronts to realize its full benefits. The paper discusses the motivation for MBSE, models and meta-models, modeling languages, the role of modeling and simulation in SE, and the current state of maturity of MBSE. The paper concludes with a discussion of needed advances to realize the potential benefits of MBSE.

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  1. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Azad M. Madni

  2. Jet Propulsion Lab, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

    Michael Sievers

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  1. Systems Architecting and Engineering Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Azad M. Madni

  2. Center for Systems and Software Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Barry Boehm

  3. Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Roger G. Ghanem

  4. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Daniel Erwin

  5. Systems Engineering Fellow, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, California, USA

    Marilee J. Wheaton

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Madni, A.M., Sievers, M. (2018). Model-Based Systems Engineering: Motivation, Current Status, and Needed Advances. In: Madni, A., Boehm, B., Ghanem, R., Erwin, D., Wheaton, M. (eds) Disciplinary Convergence in Systems Engineering Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62217-0_22

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