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system engineering, software architecture

Abstract:

MERgE is a project that has been funded by the ITEA,under their “Engineering Support” roadmap, to advance technology for multi-concern interactions in system engineering. The applicability and benefits of the work has focused particularly on Safety and Security. These system properties are usually treated and certified separately, however increasing complexity requires urgently the ability to track such global qualities through the product life cycle and consider their relationships. Driving factors here include legacy management, cost reduction, increasingly open systems and the need for resilience. This is a project paper, providing an overview and industrial return of the technology developed to better address these challenges. The work has been applied to Radio Communication, Automotive, Space and Industrial Control domains. The collaborative work has considered co-engineering, multi-viewpoint technology, expert systems, variant architectures, process enactment & recovery and operational system assessment all developed on a platform with domain tailoring capabilities.