2.6.4 An Initial Application of AP‐233

Abstract

The System Engineering Design Methodologies (SEDM) project is concerned with potential avenues to exploit the AP-233 system engineering data exchange standard. The project is a joint venture between the System Engineering and Evaluation Centre of the University of South Australia and BAE SYSTEMS Australia. The work described in this paper covers the design and implementation of an import interface from the AP-233 data model to DOORS. The project showed that AP-233 is an effective medium for tool independent transfer of systems engineering information.

4.3.3 An Architecture for an Intelligent Requirements Elicitation and Assessment Assistant

“…The choice of reasoning strategy impacts profoundly on the other two and is a key decision. Scott and Cook (2002) identified that Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) would be ideally suited to comparing requirements to historically successful requirements and requirements sets. CBR works upon a different technique from other AI systems.…”

“…More detail to the model, philosophy and evolution of the AP-233 design can be found in (Johnson, 1999;Johnson et al, 1999;Johnson et al, 2000;Pandikow et al, 2000;Johnson & Herzog, 2001;Herzog & Torne 2001). Scott et al (2002) have shown that AP-233 is well suited as a generic format for holding systems and software requirements and transferring them between dissimilar tools.…”

“…(AP-233 is designed for passing information between systems engineering tools.) This project has produced an interface that imports AP-233-formatted files into DOORS (Scott et al, 2002). This work also identified that semantic processing is needed in order to achieve meaningful information transfer and the insights gained led to an examination of requirement engineering and the work on automated requirements assessment described in this paper.…”