Our Strategy and Approach to Systems Engineering Practice

Promote Function-Architecture Co-Design and Orthogonalization of Design Concerns Emphasize function-architecture co-design. System design alternatives are created by mapping models of system behavior onto tentative system structures. System evaluation and ranking/optimization procedures eliminate the inferior solutions. Figure: Evaluation, Ranking, Optimization and Trade-Off Analysis for System Design Alternatives In the design of complex engineering systems, "orthogonalization of concerns" simplifies the difficulty in exploring the space of design alternatives. Promote Quantitative Procedures for System Evaluation, Optimization and Trade-Off Develop sophisticated algorithmic, mathematical and quantitative methods implementable in modern software environments for system evaluation, ranking, optimization and trade-off analysis.

Section 1-3: April 2002.