A viewpoint analysis reference model for Concurrent Engineering

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• 作者：Hanneghan ; Martin ; Merabti ; Madjid ; Colquhoun ; Gary
• 关键词：Concurrent engineering ; Viewpoints ; Open distributed processing ; Object-oriented reference model ; Support environment
• 刊名：Computers in Industry
• 出版年：2000
• 出版时间：January, 2000
• 年：2000
• 卷：41
• 期：1
• 页码：35-49
• 全文大小：1.68 M

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Requirements analysis is a complex task. All too often, information systems that do not fulfil users' requirements are built and delivered. In software engineering, viewpoint analysis has been proposed as a means of successfully capturing user requirements for complex systems. Viewpoint analysis is a process that produces a synthesis of requirements from a number of disparate and distinct perspectives. This paper describes such a viewpoint analysis that has been applied to the field of Concurrent Engineering. A viewpoint reference model is proposed which draws on the experiences of a number of existing models from fields such as manufacturing, information systems and distributed computing. This new reference model, the CE-RM, has been designed using object-oriented methods and has been used as a basis for building a Concurrent Engineering support environment. A description of the implementation of this new support environment is given, outlining its supporting computer systems architecture and information system model. The CE-RM is discussed and compared with a number of existing models that have been proposed to capture requirements in the manufacturing and engineering domains in order to validate the viewpoint analysis approach.