From: Friedenthal, Sanford
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'techb@incose.propagation.net'; 'juren@jpl.nasa.gov'
Subject: SE
DSIG Status -
UML for SE RFP
SE
DSIG,
The
following is a status update of the
February, 2003.
We have completed the reviews and updates of
the UML for Systems
Engineering Draft RFP dated
http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?syseng/2003-03-01.
This can also be
accessed from the RFP
page off the
http://syseng.omg.org. This draft will be
presented to the OMG ADTF
and the Architecture
Board at the OMG meeting the week of March 24,
2003, for their approval to
issue on March 28. The proposed roadmap
for responding to the
RFP is intended to result in final submissions
by March 2004,
resulting in adoption of the UML for SE in the second
half of 2004.
This draft represents the culmination of the
requirements analysis
effort for UML for
SE, which has been ongoing since the kickoff
meeting of the SE
DSIG in September, 2001. This effort also included
extensive
requirements reviews from OMG, INCOSE, and AP-233, which
began at the
Washington OMG meeting in November 2002, and continued
through the OMG and
INCOSE reviews in late January and early February
2003.
The requirements in the RFP are intended to result in a
customization of UML
for systems engineering, called a UML Profile.
The solution should provide a standard systems
modeling language to
analyze, specify,
design, and verify complex systems, while at the
same time, facilitate
the integration and communications with the SW
community and other
engineering disciplines.
This effort was initiated as a joint effort
between INCOSE and the
OMG. I believe it has
truly leveraged the talents of both groups. At
the same time, we
have worked closely with the ISO AP-233
Working
Group. Jim U'Ren, who
chairs this Group, has been making excellent
progress in moving
the AP-233 data interchange standard forward, and
helping to syncronize our efforts. I believe the results of these two
complementary efforts
will significantly enhance the practice of SE.
The OMG Technical meeting is in
DSIG is planning to meet on Wednesday, March
26 only. Our agenda is
posted on the
agenda includes the
following:
- Incorporate
comments resulting from the ADTF and/or AB into final RFP
- Review and
prepare follow-on SE DSIG roadmap
The rest of the week will include
presentations of the RFP to the ADTF
and AB, and
coordination with other working groups to support future
planning. In
addition, the
where the Analysis
and Design (AD) Platform Task Force (PTF) will vote
to recommend adoption
of all four parts of the new standard: language
infrastructure and
superstructure, Object Constraint Language, and
diagram interchange
specification.
The other
a) Dave Oliver continues to lead the joint
INCOSE/SE DSIG/AP-233
effort to evolve the
SE Conceptual Model (currently working on Draft
11)
b) Dwayne Hardy and I completed independent assessments of the U2P proposal.
Refer to SE Input
page to U2P for specifics.
c) Conrad Bock, the lead for activity diagrams
on the U2P team, has
prepared a draft
assessment, comparing U2P activity diagrams and Extended
Functional Flow Block Diagrams (EFFBD). Conrad
used Jim Long's paper
"Relationships Between
Common Graphical Represenations in Systems
Engineering", as a basis for comparison,
along with signficiant
discussions with
Joseph Skipper from Vitech, and other members of the
SE
DSIG/U2P Collaboration
effort.
Hope to see you in
OMG SE DSIG Chair
Lockheed Martin Corporation
sanford.friedenthal@lmco.com
(703) 293-5557