Requirements Analysis and Model-Based Design
A Practical Handbook for Designing Complex Systems With Modern Principles for Students and PractitionersBy Gideon Marchetti
Length15h 40m
About this audiobook
Most systems fail at their seams, not their parts. This handbook teaches the discipline that holds the seams together.
Requirements Analysis and Model-Based Design is a practical handbook for designing complex systems using modern principles. It walks you from stakeholder needs and an operational concept through verifiable requirements, traceability, functional analysis, interface control, and architecture allocation. You then move into a full model-based treatment: block definition, internal block, activity, state machine, and parametric diagrams assembled into one coherent model instead of a shelf of documents that disagree.
Trade study chapters give you weighted decision analysis, and risk chapters give you registers and technical performance measures that track margin honestly. Verification chapters cover inspection, analysis, demonstration, and test, along with integration sequencing and review gates. One communications system runs through every chapter, so each method is shown in context rather than as an isolated technique. The result is a repeatable path from needs to a verified, integrated system.
What you will learn:
• Apply systems thinking across the full system life cycle
• Capture stakeholder needs and write a concept of operations
• Elicit and write requirements that can actually be verified
• Manage requirements, traceability, and baselines across a multi-year program
• Perform functional analysis and behavioural modelling
• Define architecture and synthesize design through allocation
• Control interfaces, boundary documents, and system seams
• Build SysML models: block definition, internal block, activity, state machine, and parametric diagrams
• Use parametric models, simulation, and the digital thread
• Run trade studies and weighted decision analysis
• Manage risk, opportunity, and technical performance measures
• Plan verification, validation, and test, including inspection, analysis, demonstration, and test
• Sequence integration, technical reviews, and configuration management
• Address reliability, specialty engineering, and life-cycle support
For engineering students and practitioners new to systems roles, this handbook provides a coherent method you can apply immediately. If you are moving from a component-focused role into systems engineering, or studying systems engineering and want a practical reference that connects requirements, architecture, and models, this book is for you.
Audiobook details
GenreTechnology
Length15 hrs 40 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 27, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Requirements Analysis and Model-Based Design
2Foreword
3Preface
4About This Book
5Chapter 1: Systems Thinking and the System Life Cycle
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61.1 What a System Is and Where Its Boundary Lies
71.2 Life-Cycle Stages and Decision Gates
81.3 Emergent Behavior and the Seams Between Elements
91.4 The Role, Products and Authority of the Systems Engineer
101.5 Systems of Systems and the Ground Station in Context
11Chapter 2: Stakeholders, Needs and the Concept of Operations
122.1 Identifying Stakeholders and Their Interests
132.2 Elicitation Techniques That Produce Usable Input
142.3 From Needs to Operational Scenarios and Mission Threads
152.4 Writing the Concept of Operations
162.5 Validating Needs Before Committing to Design
17Chapter 3: Eliciting and Writing Verifiable Requirements
183.1 Anatomy of a Well-Formed Requirement
193.2 Ambiguity Traps and the Words That Cause Them
203.3 Quantifying Tolerances, Ranges and Conditions
213.4 Rationale, Source and Acceptance Criteria
223.5 Writing Requirement Sets That Stay Consistent
23Chapter 4: Requirements Management, Traceability and Baselines
244.1 The Requirement Attribute Set
254.2 Bidirectional Traceability from Need to Verification
264.3 Allocation of Requirements to Functions and Elements
274.4 Baselining and Change Control
284.5 Managing Requirement Volatility and Metrics
29Chapter 5: Functional Analysis and Behavioural Modelling
305.1 Functional Decomposition and the Function List
315.2 Functional Flow Block Diagrams and Their Rules
325.3 Interface Matrices and the N-squared Chart
335.4 States, Modes and Transitions
345.5 Timelines and Resource-Loaded Behavior
35Chapter 6: Architecture Definition and Design Synthesis
366.1 Architecture Drivers and Quality Attributes
376.2 Generating and Screening Alternative Concepts
386.3 Allocating Functions to Physical Elements
396.4 Margins, Growth and Design Reserve
406.5 Documenting the Architecture and Its Rationale
41Chapter 7: Interfaces, Control Documents and System Boundaries
427.1 Interface Definition and Ownership
437.2 Interface Control Document Content
447.3 Managing Interfaces Across Organizations and Contracts
457.4 Interface Failure Modes and Their Mitigation
46Chapter 8: Model-Based Systems Engineering with SysML
478.1 Why a Model Replaces a Shelf of Documents
488.2 Block Definition Diagrams: Structure and Hierarchy
498.3 Internal Block Diagrams, Ports and Connectors
508.4 Activity Diagrams for Function and Flow
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