Scenario-based requirements analysis for Chinese new train control system

Abstract

In order to meet the needs of railway operations in western China, the development of Chinese New Train Control System (CTCS-N) has been launched. To obtain complete and correct system requirements for CTCS-N early in system development, this paper applies the scenario-based requirements analysis method in software engineering to the requirements analysis of CTCS-N. This method takes the system operation scenario as input, analyzes the behaviors of the scenario based on ontology theory, and extracts the system requirements contained in the scenario based on SWRL (Semantic Web Rule Language) reasoning rules. Furthermore, the timed automata (TA) network model is constructed for requirement verification. Based on the design of the CTCS-N architecture, the above method is used to analyze the requirements based on the train integrity monitoring scenario as an example. The result shows that the method can effectively obtain the system requirements and provides a reference for the requirements development of CTCS-N.