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	A Practical Guide to SysML: The Systems Modeling Language Sanford Friedenthal, Alan Moore, ... Morgan Kaufmann, 2008 - 576 pages average customer review:based on 3 reviews view larger image
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Systems engineers and architects must understand how all the parts of a system work together to satisfy its requirements. SysML is a general purpose graphical modeling language used to specify, analyze, and design systems that may include hardware, software, and personnel. It allows engineers to describe how a system interacts with its environment, and how its parts must interact to achieve the desired system behavior and performance. The SysML model provides a shared view of the system, enabling a design team to surface issues early and prevent problems that would otherwise delay development and degrade design quality. Since SysML is based on UML, it also facilitates integration between systems and software development. SysML is now being adopted by companies across a broad range of industry, including Aerospace and Defense, Automotive, and IT System Developers.

This book provides a comprehensive and practical guide for modeling systems with SysML. It includes a full description of the language along with a quick reference guide, and shows how the language can be applied to specify, analyze, and design systems. It contains examples to help readers understand how SysML can be used in practice. The book also includes guidance on how an organization or project can transition to model based systems engineering using SysML, with considerations for processes, methods, tools, and training.

*The authoritative guide for understanding and applying SysML
*Authored by the foremost experts on the language
*Language description, examples, and quick reference guide included

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Review of Part I

So far, I have read all of part one and sizeable portions of subsequent text. Part One, about 60 pages long, is one of the best introductions to a very technical book aimed at the semi-technical audience. Through example, easy-to-follow diagrams & well-written English, the authors nearly seduce their readership into wanting to master the remainder of this long systems engineering text focussed on a highly-regard industry standard (OMG SysML). Part one is suitable for assignment as a week's worth of reading in Undergraduate and Graduate courses in Systems Engineering.

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A Good Companion

Often, you can tell the value of a book by what shape it's in. My copy of A Practical Guide to SysML is pretty beat up. Not only does it have a lot of my own scribbling in the margins and blue and yellow highlighting (blue for things to come back and skim and yellow for things to absolutely visit again), it has coffee, peach and other various stains. This book resides in my brief case (my satchel bag) and goes with me ("A Good Companion") when I have to accompany my wife on errands (if I am 30 minutes in any place I will read a passage or two). With this book and an iPod, I can handle anything including long waits in any airport or any delays anywhere.

Sandy and the team do an outstanding job of introducing the reader into one of the most important new System Engineering tools available today; SysML. As pointed out by others, it's not just about software anymore, it often about architectures and the enterprise. As the trends in system development move from platform centric to NetCentric, as work for organizations moves from individuals to collaborative enterprise efforts and as we all try to improve our processes and add value to collaborative efforts, a model of "what we're doing" becomes so important. The team does an outstanding job of presenting the concept of Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) in Chapter 2 and providing a great example to follow in the subsequent chapters. Throughout the book, the explanation of the diagrams and concepts are thorough and easy to understand. I thank the authors for making it interesting and relevant.

For those just starting in the field, this book is an outstanding accompaniment to any of the SysML CASE tools that are emerging. In fact, I highly recommend to anybody who is going to be working in the System Engineering field (be it automotive, aerospace, civil engineering, architecture, software, disaster relief, etc.) to keep a copy of this book handy in case you get delayed some place and want make use of some spare time.

Frank C. Alvidrez, CEA
Lancaster, CA

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Systems Modeling

The book is a key addition to anyone's library working with complex systems or dealing with systems and software engineering. It is also an important book for business analysts and other engineering disciplines to understand how their contribution and knowledge can be modeled, documented, orchestrated and managed as part of a larger ecosystem. The largest factor affecting our development of modern systems is software and systems integration. The text provides a pragmatic modeling language to remove ambiguity and uncertainty in our organically evolving world of information technology whether you are dealing with embedded software, systems of systems, or high computational systems. The applicability of the principles espoused can be applied to facilities, transportation & warehousing, ergonomics, work design, safety, quality, supply chain, product life cycle, manufacturing, financial, maintenance, and health care systems. The "Green" Initiatives for public as well as private institutions is another application across several industries where the SysML language could be used in its parametric and requirements diagrams. It was excellent in not only describing the models but also applying the models to describe the interdependence of the behavioral and structural complexities we deal with as professional engineers or information technologists. The examples in the book are an excellent base for graduate students, professionals, and newcomers to the field. The text provides excellent examples in using SysML. The layout and sequence of the material was done well providing a very intuitive pattern of application making it easier to absorb and translate to one's environment. The quick reference section is incredibly valuable. Chapter 1 and 3 as well as 17 is a must for business analysts, systems, and software engineers at minimum. I look forward to more material from these authors to help advance the application of the management of technology and SysML.

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