Representation of function
J. F. Bell · 2004
For automated design analyses (specifically FMEA and SCA) it is useful to have an automated design analysis tool interpret the results of the simulation of the system under analysis in terms of the purpose of the system and the design analysis task. The description of system function (in “functional labelling”) has been shown to be a useful approach to this for systems of simple functionality. This report attempts a description of a suitable representation of function to allow the approach to be used for various design analysis tasks and as the underpinning of a functional description language of sufficient expressiveness to allow systems whose functionali ty depends on complex behaviours to be described.