An observed increase in systems scale and complexity has led to a significant momentum in
exploring, identifying, and adopting model based systems engineering (MBSE) tools and …

The soaring demand, inevitable changes, and substantial change costs associated with
complex mechanical products (CMPs) have accelerated the need to reasonably and …

Metamodelling has become a crucial technique to handle the complexity issues in the
software development industry. This paper critically reviews and systematically classifies the …

Requirements are subject to frequent changes as a way to ensure that they reflect the
current best understanding of a system, and to respond to factors such as new and evolving …

Context In order to ensure usability, it is necessary to schedule activities and methods to be
applied throughout different stages of the development process. There exists a substantial …

Featured Application Industry case study from the automotive industry and five development
projects. Abstract Requirement changes and cascading effects of change propagation are …

As new requirements are introduced and implemented in a software system, developers
must identify the set of source code classes which need to be changed. Therefore, past effort …

An important activity in systems engineering is analyzing how a change in requirements will
impact the design of a system. Performing this analysis manually is expensive, particularly …

User requirements for software development are getting more complicated and are
changing all the time. Not only should the requirements engineering process be well …

In product engineering, design changes are unavoidable because of the evolution of
customer requirements and key technologies. Modularization has been extensively applied …