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Item System Modeling and Traceability Applications of the Higraph Formalism(2006-05-04) Fogarty, Kevin; Austin, Mark; Systems Engineering; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)One of the most important tools for a systems engineer is their system model. From this model, engineering decisions can be made without costly integration, fabrication, or installations. Existing system modeling languages used to create the system model are detailed and comprehensive, but lack a true ability to unify the system model by showing all relationships among all components in the model. Higraphs, a type of mathematical graph, allow systems engineers to not only represent all required information in a system model, but to formally show all relationships in the model through hierarchies, edges, and orthogonalities. With a higraph system model, all relationships between system requirements, components, and behaviors are formalized allowing for a "smart" model that can be queried for custom sets of information that, when presented to the systems engineer, will aid in engineering decisions.Item System Modeling and Traceability Applications of the Higraph Formalism(2007-08-31) Fogarty, Kevin; Austin, MarkThis report examines the use of higraphs as a means of representing dependencies and relationships among multiple aspects of system development models (e.g., requirements, hardware, software, testing concerns). We show how some well-known diagram types in UML have counterpart higraph representations, how these models incorporate hierarchy and orthogonality, and how each model can be connected to the others in a useful (and formal) manner. Present-day visual modeling languages such as UML and SysML do not readily support: (1) The traceability mechanisms required for the tracking of requirements changes, and (2) Builtin support for systems validation. Higraphs also deviate from UML and SysML in their ability to model requirements, rules, and domain knowledge relevant to the development of models for system behavior and system structure. To accommodate these demands, an extension to the basic mathematical definition of higraphs is proposed. Capabilities of the extended higraph model are examined through model development for an office network computing system.