System interoperability: definition and proposition of interface model in MBSE Context
Résumé
System interoperability is an essential feature of any system to be able to interact with other systems during its mission without any problem or anticipating these ones and their effects when necessary. However, Systems Engineering (SE) approach does not clearly takes into account this feature. First, there is no clear definition of system interoperability requirement in SE. Second, there is no relevant interface model in SE with which engineers can model and check system interoperability requirements. This article aims first to define the system interoperability concept. Second it defines and formalizes the notion of interoperability requirement allowing then to enrich the classical requirements repository used in SE domain. Third, it promotes an interface meta model allowing engineers to build and to check interfaces taking into account interoperability requirements in coherence with MBSE hypotheses.