Includes bibliographical references (pages 693-696) and index.
1. Systems engineering. System requirements. System design. System life cycle -- 2. Systems. Discrete systems. System experiments. System modeling. System theoretic properties of system models. Cartesian products and system artifacts. System parameterizations -- 3. System coupling. System coupling recipes. Taxonomy of system coupling recipes. Resultants of system coupling recipes. Theory of system coupling. Components and subsystems -- 4. System homomorphisms. Homomorphisms. System isomorphisms. Homomorphisms of system resultants -- 5. System modes. System modes. Implementation. System modes in design. System mode hologenicity -- 6. Input/output requirements. The space of input/output requirements. Satisfaction of input/output requirements. The functionality space. Homomorphisms of input/output requirements -- 7. Technology requirements. Technologies. Buildability. The buildability space. Implementability in technologies. The implementability space -- 8. Performance, cost, and trade-off requirements. Figures of merit. Combining figures of merit. Specification of performance, cost, and trade-off requirements. Design of a service delivery system -- 9. System test requirements. The system life cycle and system test requirements. Testability. Development of system test requirements. System design problems -- Appendix 1: System design language -- Appendix 2: T3SD notation -- Appendix 3: Examples of systems -- Appendix 4: Examples of system parameterizations -- Appendix 5: Examples of system coupling recipes -- Appendix 6: Examples of input/output requirements -- Appendix 7: Examples of input/output requirement parameterizations -- Appendix 8: Examples of technologies -- Appendix 9: Examples of system design problems, system designs, and implementable system test items.
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Engineering mathematics.
System design.
Systems engineering-- Mathematical models.
Ingénierie des systèmes-- Modèles mathématiques.