The current chapter looks at expanding the approach to context-based requirements engineering (ACRE) introduced in Chapter 9 so that it can be applied to Systems of Systems. The adoption of the naming notation defined in Chapter 2 applies throughout the whole book to every term - except one! This term is System of Systems, and the confusion comes into play with the plural of term. Therefore, when referring the standard term from the model-based systems engineering (MBSE) Ontology, the usual term System of Systems will be used. However, when this term is used in the plural, the term Systems of Systems will be used (note the plural of the first word).

Chapter Contents:

• 10.1 Introduction
• 10.1.1 Background
• 10.1.2 Defining a System of Systems
• 10.1.3 Types of Systems of Systems
• 10.2 Approach
• 10.2.1 The MBSE Ontology (revisited)
• 10.2.2 The Framework
• 10.2.2.1 Changes to the Framework
• 10.2.3 The Viewpoints
• 10.2.3.1 The Context Interaction Viewpoint
• 10.2.3.2 The Validation Interaction View
• 10.3 Summary
• References

Inspec keywords: ontologies (artificial intelligence); systems analysis; formal specification; systems engineering; formal verification

Other keywords: model-based systems engineering ontology; Systems of Systems; MBSE ontology; requirements modelling; context-based requirements engineering

Subjects: Knowledge engineering techniques; Formal methods