AP233 Module Sets

The following identifies and describes the Module Sets for AP233, the STEP Systems Engineering Project.

Preliminary Draft

• Text-based Requirements [ TBR ] - a data model that describes requirements as text strings with traceability, allocation, weighting and risk identified with each requirement.

• Property-based Requirements [ PBR] - a data model that describes requirements as structured and quantified formalisms that maybe decomposed from text-based requirements; can include tables, spreadsheets, graphs, charts, pictures and equations.

• Structural Models - a data model that describes how a system is built; defines the static relationships among
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  the subsystems, components, or parts that actually constitute the system; describes what is designed, built and maintained; contains specifications for design, manufacture, and maintenance and information about actual manufactured parts and their verification and maintenance

• Behavioral Models - a data model that describes how a system performs; includes functions, inputs, outputs and control operators which define the ordering of functions; the model describes Functional Flow Block Diagrams, Finite State Machines, Causal Chain, Data Flow Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams.

• Data Representation - "a consistent set of “presentation mechanisms” and “advanced schematics product model definition”, which is designed to present the computer sensible model data (defined in representation model space) onto a human understandable schematic diagram (presentation space), conforming to conventional and/or future draughting standards" [ from Intelligent Sematics PWI RDD ]

• Risk Analysis - a data model that identifies risk(s), describes their status, specifies relationships, likelihood, consequence, impact approach strategy and contingencies.

• Cost Models - a data model that describes direct, indirect, fixed, variable, material, administrative, finance, and contingency costs; provides linkage to system product structure(s)

• Scheduling - a data model that identifies activities, dependencies, durations and milestones associated with products described in the WBS; includes WorkFlow Diagrams, Network Schedules, Gantt Charts and Resource Leveling.