Capitalization and reuse with patterns in a Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) framework

Abstract

In order to promote capitalization and reuse within a Model-Based System Engineering (MBSE) framework, this paper proposes a methodological approach that relies on the concept of pattern in order to encapsulate the know-how to be capitalized and reused. Indeed, formalizing and maintaining know-how within a company is essential in order to have a common base of "good practices" available to all engineering teams. To do this, it is necessary to undertake a capitalization process in order to encapsulate these practices. However, it is equally important to make this know-how available and to facilitate its reuse so that engineers can adapt it to their needs. The flexibility of patterns during reuse is an advantage that will contribute to the efficiency of MBSE and where engineering teams are able to rely on the company's know-how.

Use of Patterns for Know-How Reuse in a Model-Based Systems Engineering Framework

“…Indeed, it will then be possible to assess the amount of effort required to improve one's level of maturity. Our ongoing work also aims to formalize an MBSE methodology for developing complex systems by leveraging patterns (identification, extraction) [84] and thus improving the maturity level of the pattern reuse process. As patterns need to be mined, it appears that the act of capitalization (by abstracting/extracting patterns) is not self-evident and implies the ability to make know-how explicit.…”

A Modelling Method for Describing and Facilitating the Reuse of SysML Models during Design Process

“…The reuse of the models can be planned or unplanned as well (Wu et al, 2020). Keeping the later reuse in mind, there are a number of contributions that deal with the reuse (Lange et al, 2018;Shani and Broodney, 2015;Wu et al, 2019) of models. Furthermore, there are several contributions that deal with the modelling of variants in SysML (Grönniger et al, 2008;Weilkiens, 2016).…”