Model-based enterprise information system architectural design with SysML

Model-based system design is commonly supported by Systems Modeling Language (SysML). When designing Enterprise Information Systems (EISs), software and network infrastructure architecture should be designed in parallel, ensuring system efficiency. Furthermore, non-functional requirements, such as performance ones, should be focused during EIS architecture design, as they play a significant role in system efficiency. The scope of this research is to provide a model-based approach for EIS architecture design, utilizing SysML as a modeling language. The system designer should be provided with alternative views, focusing on software and hardware architecture and facilitating non-functional requirements verification. Although SysML provides support for requirements specification, corresponding tools lack an automated requirements verification process. To this end, an integrated design environment is presented, not only capable of defining alternative EIS architectures, but also enabling architectural evaluation using simulation and integrating an automated non-functional requirement verification process utilizing simulation results.