TITLE:
A System Status Definition to Improve Behavior Description in Specifications Based on Constructal Law
AUTHORS:
Luciano Ondir Freire, Dr. Delvonei Alves de Andrade, Daniel Monterrain
KEYWORDS:
Cyber Systems, System Design, Constructal Law, System Behavior Modelling, State Analysis, System Engineering
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Applied Sciences,
Vol.8 No.8,
August
8,
2018
ABSTRACT: System
behavior description using states faces problems like state explosion, lack of
clear definition of state, state identification and coordination between
multiple agents. The goals of this work are to ease design activity, to reduce
engineering efforts, and to mitigate project risks. The proposed way is to
improve information flow during design by adding definitions and some protocols
or rules for communicating a specification or design description. This work
presented an objective definition of system status (way of interaction with the
rest of the world) along other concepts. This work focused in definitions as
mind entities and their importance to rationalize work and mitigate project
risks during design. This article presented some simple examples to illustrate
the advantages of each aspect of proposed definition of system status and
discussed limits and exceptions for such definition. The key finding was the
proposed definition which was the simplest while keeping completeness at a given product breakdown
level. Such definition of status enforced formal segregation of needs and
solutions, and eased the inclusion of behavior definition in specifications.