An executable and integrative approach to whole-system modeling: Applying OpEMCSS to simulation-based and model-based systems engineering for holonic systems engineering.

摘要

A traditional systems engineering process emphasizes requirements, traceability, functional decomposition, architecture, optimization, and static modeling. The lack of an executable modeling paradigm in this process constricts the operational evaluation of requirements for agent-based systems. Thus, system development can become an unmanageable process due to the complex interaction of intelligent agents in the system design and modeling process. A holonic systems engineering process identifies requirements in terms of processes and interactions. It facilitates an executable and integrative approach to Whole Systems Modeling (WSM), by leveraging complex adaptive system techniques and simulations for pragmatic foresight into system behavior, via the application of Operational Evaluation Modeling for Context Sensitive Systems (OpEMCSS). This is applicable to both systems engineering and the system of systems engineering, for systems that include intelligent agents empowered to adjust system behaviors and relationship gradients. The key enabler to WSM is applying OpEMCSS to simulation-based and model-based systems engineering.