Course Outline

Introduction to System Modelling

  • What is a system model?
  • The four pillars of system modelling
  • Model centric vs document centric
  • What is SysML?
  • Relationship between SysML and UML
  • The four pillars of SysML

Common and Crosscutting Constructs

  • Profiles, stereotypes and tags
  • Diagram frames
  • Comments
  • Allocations

Package Diagrams

  • What is a package?
  • Structuring the model with packages
  • Package containment
  • Package dependencies
  • Representing the model structure
  • Views and viewpoints

Requirement Diagrams

  • What is a requirement?
  • Modelling atomic requirements
  • Requirement traceability

Use Case Diagrams

  • The system as a black box
  • Identifying the system boundary with actors
  • Use cases as system services
  • Behind the use case diagram
  • Use case structure · Nominal and alternative scenarios
  • Handling common behaviour
  • Extended and specialised behaviour

Activity Diagrams

  • Modelling flow-based logic
  • Actions vs activities
  • Understanding token flow
  • Control flow vs object flow
  • Modelling decisions · Modelling concurrency
  • Swimlanes and responsibility

Block Definition Diagrams

  • What is a block?
  • Block features
  • Modelling types
  • Modelling system hierarchy
  • Generalising system elements

Internal Block Diagrams

  • Parts revisited
  • Ports with Flow Properties
  • Standard ports and interfaces 
  • Proxy ports and interface blocks 
  • Full ports 

Parametric Diagrams

  • What is a constraint block?
  • Constraining system properties

Sequence Diagrams

  • Interaction-based behaviour
  • Simple sequences
  • Synchronous vs asynchronous
  • Fragment nodes
  • Interaction use nodes

State Machine Diagrams

  • States and their syntax
  • Transitions between states
  • Pseudo state notation (initial, decision, history, end)
  • Decomposing states
  • Modelling concurrent states

System Modelling Resources and Further Reading

  • Suggested web resources
  • Recommended literature

Requirements

Students who wish to attend this course are not required to have any prior exposure to system modelling but should have a solid grasp of “document centric” systems engineering techniques.

 21 Hours

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