Fundamentals of System Modeling

Systems Engineering has always drawn heavily on detailed sets of drawings to convey high level systems concepts, system architecture and organization, and even detailed graphical depictions of key algorithms and other behavior. With the advent of the SysML language supporting a uniform and standards-based set of semantics for systems modeling and appropriate modeling technology to capture, organize, and transform these models, the state of practice is now pivoting from ad-hoc diagramming to a more rigorous and consistent modeling approach.