4.2.2 System Engineering and KBS Development

Abstract

AbstractThis paper discusses connection principles for methods and tools, between traditional Requirement Engineering and Problem Domain Analysis, in order to be able to manage every kind of requirement: functional, non functional, knowledge and rule based. This paper is based on studies carried out at NCS‐FRANCE, part of the Naval Combat Systems Group (NCS) of Thomson‐CSF.Thomson‐CSF has set up a common policy for System Engineering at the corporate level, which includes a method called MIST (“MŽthode d'IngŽnierie Systme Thomson‐CSF”), based on Draft MIL‐STD‐499B standard, and a tool which is RDD‐100TM. The additional work performed at Thomson‐CSF/NCS focuses on the analysis of operational requirements in the area of C3I systems. A Problem Domain Analysis approach appears to provide a promising solution. The method used by Thomson‐CSF/NCS in this area is KADS (Knowledge Analysis and Design Support), which is a conceptual modeling language stemming from European research projects. The tool which implements this method is OpenKADSTM.