Model-based System and Architecture Engineering with the Arcadia Method

Arcadia is a system engineering method based on the use of models, with a focus on the collaborative definition, evaluation and exploitation of its architecture.

This book describes the fundamentals of the method and its contribution to engineering issues such as requirements management, product line, system supervision, and integration, verification and validation (IVV). It provides a reference for the modeling language defined by Arcadia.

The author discusses the range of applications, from the assessment of different architectures and their suitability, to the collaboration between system engineering, specialties such as safety or security, subsystems engineering teams, software and hardware. This is illustrated by several examples of representative models which constitute a common thread.

Autorentext

Jean-Luc Voirin is Systems Technical Director at Thales. A software and system architect, he has worked for 15 years on modeling methods and tools. He is the author of the Arcadia method for model-based system engineering, and is also a coach for deployment of the method.

Inhalt

Part 1. Foundations of the Method: General Approach and Major Prospects
1. Motivations, Background and Introduction to Arcadia

2. Main Perspectives Structuring the Modeling Approach
3. Adaptation to Project Context and Life Cycle
4. General Approach to Functional Analysis
5. Operational Analysis
6. System Needs Analysis
7. Definition of the Principle Architecture or Logical Architecture
8. Definition of the Finalized Architecture or Physical Architecture

9. Definition of Implementation, Development,Acquisition and Integration Contracts

   Part 2. Method in Action: Using Engineering Models

10. Mixing Viewpoints: Analysis and Specialties
11. Requirements Engineering and Modeling
12. Integration, Verification and Validation Approach
13. Articulation between Engineering Levels
14. System Supervision, States and Modes

15. Contribution to Product Line Engineering

    Part 3. Encyclopedia of the Language and Glossary of the Concepts of Arcadia
    16. Introduction to Arcadia Modeling Language

16. Concepts of Functional and Operational Description
17. Concepts of States and Modes
18. Concepts of Structural Description
19. Links between Functional and Structural Descriptions
20. Data Exchange Concepts and Links with Functional and Structural Concepts
21. Additional Concepts
22. Building the Global Model