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GENESYS Systems Metamodel Concepts

Systems metamodel (also known as the System Definition Language) is an extended natural language in ERA format

GENESYS Concept

English Equivalent

GENESYS Example

• Requirement Accept Requests • Function Accept And Format Request • Component Command Center Subsystem • Requirement basis of Functions • Functions are allocated to Components

Class / Entity

Common Noun / Particular Noun

Relationship

Verb

Attribute

Adjective

• Description • Number

Resource consumed by Function • Amount • Acquire Available (hold partial)

Relationship Attribute

Adverb

Parameter Structure

N/A N/A

Design-dependent variables (mass, size, reliability, etc.)

Viewed as activity diagram or enhanced FFBD

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Seeing a Partial Systems Engineering Example

DOCUMENT

documents (documented by)

documents (documented by)

• Number • Description • Type

REQUIREMENT • Number • Description • Type • Origin

COMPONENT • Number • Description • Type

specifies (specified by)

FUNCTION

specified by (specifies)

performs (allocated to)

•Number •Description •Duration •Exit Logic

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