Beginners Guide to Model-Based Systems Engineering

12/18/2018

“Defining” Models and MBSE

Model: a graphical, mathematical (symbolic), physical, or verbal representation or simplified version of a concept, phenomenon, relationship, structure, system, or an aspect of the real world. www.businessdictionary.com Model: a physical, mathematical, or otherwise logical representation of a system, entity, phenomenon, or process. DoD5000.59-M 1998 Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) is the formalized application of modeling to support system requirements, design, analysis, verification and validation activities beginning in the conceptual design phase and continuing throughout development and later life cycle phases. INCOSE SE Vision 2020, September, 2007 Digital Engineering: an integrated digital approach that uses authoritative sources of systems' data and models as a continuum across disciplines to support lifecycle activities from concept through disposal. ODASD-SE, 2017

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Recognizing What MBSE Is Not: “Demythify” the Transition

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