Preface

Bruce Powel Douglass, Ph.D.

Products are becoming more capable and complex at an exponential rate. Additionally, the safety, reliability, and security concerns for these systems are making these systems much more difficult to engineer. Simultaneously, product development cycles are shrinking. Clearly, change in needed. We need to be able to produce more capable systems in less time and with fewer defects.

One touted solution to this problem is to eschew text as the primary means for capturing engineering data. While text is wonderfully expressive, it is ambiguous and woefully imprecise. Modeling using more formally defined languages (notably, in this context, UML and SysML) claims to improve specific engineering data. If only we could ...

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