Cheltenham, UK – 11th November 2005. On November 14th, the SysML Submission Team (SST), chaired by Sanford Friedenthal of Lockheed Martin Corp, will submit its proposed SysML specification to the OMG (Object Management Group) for review. The SysML v0.98 specification submission is in response to the joint Request for Proposal issued by the OMG and INCOSE (the International Council on Systems Engineering) for a customized version of UML 2.0 designed to address the specific needs of system engineers. With the submission of the specification, the SysML language will enter the OMG’s final standardisation process.
The completion of the SST’s SysML v0.98 specification is the result of unprecedented co-operation between some of the foremost tool vendors, leading industry users, government agencies and professional organizations. Leading vendors, including ARTiSAN Software Tools, EmbeddedPlus Engineering, I-Logix, International Business Machines, Mentor Graphics, and Sparx Systems, closely collaborated to create the specification. Other stakeholders, including American Systems Corporation, BAE SYSTEMS, The Boeing Company, EADS Astrium, Eurostep Group, Lockheed Martin Corporation, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, oose.de Dienstleistungen für innovative Informatik, Raytheon Company and THALES, added their own expertise to the specification effort, making it the most comprehensive, collaborative standards definition effort to date.
SysML is a new visual modeling language that extends UML 2.0 in order to support the specification, analysis, design, verification and validation of complex systems that include components for hardware, software, data, personnel, procedures, and facilities. SysML reuses a subset of UML 2.0 diagrams and augments them with some new diagrams and constructs appropriate for systems modeling. SysML is designed to complement UML 2.0, so systems engineers who are specifying a system with SysML can collaborate efficiently with software engineers who are defining a system with UML 2.0.
“Creating the SysML v0.98 specification has been a mammoth task in which over 100 man-years of effort has been invested,” said Alan Moore, Specification Architect of the SysML Submission Team and ARTiSAN’s VP of Product Strategy. “Full SysML support will be incorporated into the next version of ARTiSAN Studio, our flagship modeling environment, demonstrating ARTiSAN’s total commitment to the SysML standard.”
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