Method for collaborative design on context boundaries in model-based tools

Abstract

A method for collaborative design of a system of interest (SoI) in a model-based systems engineering (MBSE) framework models the system into an artifact including customer-owned and supplier-owned portions. The customer system identifies a collaborative portion within the artifact, shared by both customer and supplier, wherein data exchanges and modifications to the SoI will take place, the collaborative portion defined by a context boundary. The customer and supplier package their respective shareable portions of the SoI into bundles including the customer-initiated collaborative portion and a supplier-owned copy. Further modifications to the SoI may be implemented via cadenced synchronization of the customer-owned and supplier-owned copies of the collaborative portion to exchange, accept, and propagate successive changes initiated by either party.

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