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NextGenSysML Part 1 – Overview SysML V2 And SysML API & Services RFP’s

This blog post gives you a brief overview of the SysML v2 RFP and the SysML API & Services RFP. The previous blog post introduced the RFPs and explained what it is all about. Following blog posts will present details of specific sections of the RFP’s. In December 2017 the OMG published the SysML v2…
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Happy Birthday, UML

Happy Birthday, UML!!!

A blog post from my colleague Axel Scheithauer reminded me of the birthday of UML. It seems that no one – including the OMG – except him, has recognized the 20th anniversary of the UML. I will not copy Axel’s blog post and instead just highlight some facts about UML and give you a gift…
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Next Generation SysML – All-clear for Takeoff

The OMG has voted for the SysML v2 RFP on their quarterly technical meeting in San Francisco last week. That means the set of requirements for SysML Version 2.0 is fixed and officially published. It took more than two years to write the RFP. Systems engineering modeling experts from all over the world – users…
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Engineering the Smart Grid

A post by guest author Christian Neureiter. Engineering the „Smart Grid“ has proven to be a challenging task. A critical factor for the development of dependable and robust grids is the successful establishment of interdisciplinary cooperation between different stakeholder. To serve this purpose, major research has been conducted over the last years on how to…
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Conjugation Considered Harmful!

A post by guest author Axel Scheithauer: SysML is based on the UML, and I think that was a good choice. However, some concepts of the UML don’t make sense in the world of systems and then sometimes lead to not so useful ideas, like typed binding connectors (how many user defined types of equality…
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What’s new in SysML 1.5 – Miscellaneous

The third and last part of the blog post series about the changes of SysML 1.5 covers several minor updates. Reception compartment Now SysML explicitly defines a block compartment for signal receptions. It is the same notation as in UML. The following figure depicts an example of the reception compartment.   Requirement compartments The SysML…
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SysML 1.5 officially published!

Now SysML 1.5 is officially published. You find the specification on the OMG server: http://www.omg.org/spec/SysML/. I’ve written a blogpost series about the changes of SysML 1.5.

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What’s new in SysML 1.5 – Requirements modeling

This post is the second part of the blog post series about the changes of SysML 1.5. The biggest novelty in SysML 1.5 is only visible on the second view. If you do not use the new feature, you will not recognize it. Since version 1.0 SysML provides the model element Requirement to model text-based requirements,…
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What’s new in SysML 1.5 – Overview

This blog post series presents the changes of the SysML version 1.5 that are relevant for modelers. I skip those changes that only affect the specification document like typos or rewordings. You may also be interested in the blog post series about the changes in the SysML version 1.4. The first part of this blog…
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EA User Group London 2017

A post by guest author Guillaume Finance: A new EA User Group for the Enterprise Architect users and experts community will take place this year in London on Thursday 18th and Friday 19th of May. Compared with previous events, this EAUG will run on 2 days. This decision has been taken based on a recent survey where a…
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