Formulas and Guidelines for Deriving Functional System Requirements from a Systems Engineering Model

Abstract

Within this paper, we discuss a specific approach to system‐level modeling using activities, with the goal of writing English‐language requirements for the System of Interest (SOI), and then using formulas which interact with the model to proceduralize the authorship process. This overall approach makes it possible for most technical participants in a program to do most of their development work in a collaborative modeling environment, spending most of their time dealing with technical issues rather than language issues, while implementing a rapid translation to English‐language functional requirements toward the end of the process which may eventually be automated.