Automating the synthesis of AltaRica Data-Flow models from SysML

The work presented in this article, completes the description of an engineering framework aiming at integrating the reliability analysis practices within the functional design process. The described method is structured into a SysML context and proposes the execution of varied safety and reliability analyses as FM EA. The first steps were presented in our previous papers and namely in (David et al. 2008, 2009). This paper is centred on connecting this method to current efficient techniques to obtain and quantify failure scenarios. It focuses on how to exploit SysML models to construct semi-automatically models in AltaRica Data Flow (Rauzy 2002). The method, presented, proposes to construct the AltaRica Data Flow model from the results of the functional analysis and from those obtained during a risk analysis. In order to realize this step, the semantics of both languages are studied and compared. Namely, we focus on finding models the expected elements to construct the AltaRica Data Flow model, in the SysML.