Presentation to Northrop Grumman, June 4, 2003

Synthesis of Radar System Architectures from Reusable Component-Specifications By: Mark Austin (...with help from Natasha Kositsyna, Vimal Mayank, and Jeff Coriale)
Table of Contents	Contact Information and Project Participants
Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches to Architecture-Level Development Top-Down Decomposition: Pathway from Requirements to System Architectures Bottom-Up Synthesis of Engineering Systems, enhanced with Component Reuse Capability of Present-Day Requirements Management Tools Our Strategy for Requirements Engineering Research Systems of Systems Requirements Management Systems are Systems of Systemsa Second Generation Semantic Web Architecture-Level Development of a Pulse-Doppler Radar System Top-Down System-Level Development Bottom-Up System Synthesis Enabled by Reusable Component-Specifications Reusable Component-Specification Pairs Formulation of Reusable Component-Specification Pairs Writing Requirements and Specifications Plan of Work Formulation of Sensor-Specification Descriptions XML Database and Graphical Frontend Click here for printable version. Abstract	Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. Mark's e-mail: austin@isr.umd.edu Natasha's e-mail: kosnat@isr.umd.edu Vimal's e-mail: vmayank@isr.umd.edu Jeff's e-mail: coriale@isr.umd.edu UMD Project Participants: Mark Austin, John Baras, Natasha Kositsyna, Vimal Mayank. Current Industry Participants: Lockheed Martin, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Battelle.