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System reconfiguration (SR) is essential in system management, as it is an enabler for system flexibility and adaptability, attendant ilities being reliability, availability, maintainability, testability, safety, and reuse of system entities and technologies. Within current industrial practice, the development of reconfiguration tools is a real challenge. The development of these tools demand clear identification of reconfiguration data. In this paper, key concepts of the reconfiguration process, and relations among them, are represented in the form of the OSysRec ontology. These concepts are applied to the integrated modular avionics case study to test the proposed ontology within the aerospace domain.
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Qasim, L., Hein, A.M., Olaru, S., Jankovic, M., Garnier, JL. (2022). An Ontology for System Reconfiguration: Integrated Modular Avionics IMA Case Study. In: Madni, A.M., Boehm, B., Erwin, D., Moghaddam, M., Sievers, M., Wheaton, M. (eds) Recent Trends and Advances in Model Based Systems Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82083-1_17
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