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"extra" that makes attending class worthwhile...
Extra Handouts
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- Click here for archived notes
on extra
handouts posted from 08/25/03 - 10/01/03.
- Notes
on Object
Oriented Thinking
- An
interesting, very recent, paper on the use of UML and OO thinking for
designing real systems.
- Bahill, T. and Daniels, J. (2003), "Using Object-Oriented and
UML Tools for Hardware Design: A Case Study," Systems Engineering, 6 (1), pp. 28 - 48. Paper Download
- Click
here for a link to Dr. Bahill's web-site with it own assorted set
of unique material on systems engineering
- An
overview of the ANSI/EIA 632 Systems Engineering Standard - paper download
- Sample
Term
Papers (courtesy Dr. Andrew P. Sage, Professor, School of SEOR,
GMU)
- A well-written term report outlining the SDD for a content
management system - please read it carefully to see how well the author
has outlined his report and motivated the system in such a short
document - compare and contrast this with the (massive) SDD that CORE
compiles - the zipped file contains both the report and the CORE
database Download zipped file
- The elevator case study from the Buede text, including its
CORE database. Download zipped file
- If time permits, read Chapter
3 of the Budd text - section 3.4 outlines an interesting system
called the Intelligent Kitchen Helper.
- (New) Petri Nets (Required
Downloads for Homework 5)
- (Reqd.) Agerwala,
T. (1979), "Putting Petri Nets to Work", IEEE Computer. Download
- (Optional)
Sivaraman, E. (2003), "Petri Nets: A Primer." Download
- (Reqd.) PESIM -
software for Petri net modeling and simulation. Download zipped file
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