Information and process modelling approaches for the engineering of heterogeneous systems

This paper intends to contribute to efforts for standardising ECBS process and information models and ECBS architectures by exploring these ECBS constituents with respect to the design and development of heterogeneous systems like micro-systems. These highly-integrated systems are usually embedded into larger systems like cars and consist of many different mechanical or electrical elements. This diversity of system parts requires special technology in order to combine the different engineering disciplines involved during the design of such systems. Thus, a process model including the development of all system pacts and an information model able to keep descriptions of the different parts in a uniform way are necessary. They are developed in this paper. In addition to these modelling approaches the paper shows how the system architecture influences the design decisions and which tool support is required.