Domain Independent Modeling Framework for System Design
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current design environments face challenges in achieving a consistent and coherent view of system requirements and design changes across multiple disciplines due to the use of diverse engineering tools and lack of standardization, leading to inefficiencies, sub-optimal designs, and increased costs.
Innovation Solution
A consistent framework for system design that implements an external domain-independent modeling framework, allowing for the sharing and analysis of formal engineering models across different domain-specific tools without requiring external tool compliance, by converting models into a common internal representation while preserving semantics.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If diverse domain-specific engineering tools are used for system design, then each specialist can work with optimized tools for their domain, but information sharing and consistency across disciplines deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a central repository as an intermediary that stores standardized system information accessible by all domain-specific tools. This mediator enables information sharing across specialized tools without requiring them to communicate directly, resolving the contradiction between tool optimization and information consistency.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal information model that serves multiple domain-specific purposes simultaneously. This single standardized representation is used by hardware, software, and system engineers alike, allowing each specialist to work with their preferred tools while maintaining consistent information across all disciplines.
2Adaptability or versatility
If design information is distributed as text documents and engineering drafts, then flexibility in documentation is improved, but interpretation accuracy and communication clarity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms design information from unstructured text documents into structured data with defined parameters and semantics. By changing the representation format from flexible text to parameterized models, the system maintains documentation flexibility while significantly improving interpretation accuracy and reducing ambiguities.
3Extent of automation
If formal engineering models are kept domain-specific and not shared, then model expertise and tool optimization are improved, but system-wide change detection and integration efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the overall design model into domain-specific sub-models (hardware, software, system) that can be independently developed and maintained with specialized tools. Each segment retains its domain expertise while being integrated through a common standardized interface, enabling both automation and efficient system-wide integration.
4Productivity
If design changes are not propagated timely across all specialists, then individual domain work speed is improved, but design convergence and problem detection speed deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements automated feedback mechanisms that propagate design changes across all domain models in real-time. When a change is made in one domain, the system automatically notifies and updates relevant specialists, maintaining design convergence without sacrificing individual work speed through centralized change management.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed are a method, system, and computer program product for implementing external domain independent modeling framework in a system design. In some embodiments, the method or system comprises importing an external model in an external format into the framework while substantially preserving some or all of the interpretation of the external model, determining a internal common representation for the external model within the framework, and displaying or storing the internal common representation in a tangible computer readable medium. In some embodiments, the method or system further comprises validating the accuracy of the internal common representation, determining an analysis or transformation capability for the framework, or outputting a first output model in a second external format. In various embodiments, the method or system requires no external tool compliance.