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Training and educating Systems Engineers is a key activity for any organization developing complex heterogeneous systems. Ideally, the regional/national academic community will providecourses and e ...

This paper explores the comprehensive implementation of requirements engineering processes in the controls and computing domain at large research facilities, made concrete in a case study on the wo ...

The development of modern technical systems requires the close collaboration of various specialist teams and engineering disciplines in order to reach the expected complex functionality. Even though working with the same system towards the same goal, developers from the different domains use their own specific tools, providing their own specific views of the system to be developed. For the successful integration of the efforts from each of these disciplines, the different views produced need to be appropriately integrated, preventing any inconsistencies and divergences from creeping into the system design. We present an approach to multi-view modelling which systematically integrates the two generally accepted complexity reduction techniques of hierarchical decomposition and multi-viewing. While these techniques are common practice in many modern design tools, the approach presented in this paper defines how the inter-view relationships can be used to tightly interweave the views' hierarchies. This provides a good basis for an information sharing environment enabling model based, multi-disciplinary development. A small case study is used to exemplify how the proposed method simplifies the process of allocating system functions to a hardware architecture in a truck.