Requirements management and modeling in complex systems integration

A service for modeling and managing requirements in a complex integrated system, comprising:

• providing a computer infrastructure comprising a processing means, a memory in communication with the processing means and a network interface in communication with the processing means, wherein the processing means:
• characterizes each requirement in a set of a plurality of requirements implementable within a plurality of components of a complex integrated system as a unique numerical point value;
• assigns a requirement type from a set of first, second and third requirement types to each requirement in the set of requirements, wherein each of the first, second and third requirement types are different from each other;
• plots each of the first type requirement unique numerical point values at spaced locations within one of a plurality of functional sector portions formed on a circumference of a first requirement type circle, each of the second type requirement unique numerical point values at spaced locations within one of a plurality of functional sector portions formed on a circumference of a second requirement type circle that is graphically displayed below the first circle, and each of the third type requirement unique numerical point values at spaced locations within one of a plurality of functional sector portions formed on a circumference of a third requirement type circle that is graphically displayed below the second and forms a column with the first and second circles, wherein each functional sector is determined as a function of a set of architectural principles;
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• draws chords between unique numerical point values located on different ones of the first, second and third circles of requirements that are derived from a same parent system, wherein the chords are drawn by using any chord already existing and connecting the same functional sector portions of the different ones of the first, second and third circles.

An article of manufacture, comprising:

• a tangible computer readable storage device comprising computer executable program code stored thereon, the computer executable program code comprising instructions which, when executed on a computer system, cause the computer system to:
• characterize each requirement in a set of a plurality of requirements implementable within a plurality of components of a complex integrated system as a unique numerical point value;
• assign a requirement type from a set of first, second and third requirement types to each requirement in the set of requirements, wherein each of the first, second and third requirement types are different from each other;
• plot each of the first type requirement unique numerical point values at spaced locations within one of a plurality of functional sector portions formed on a circumference of a first requirement type circle, each of the second type requirement unique numerical point values at spaced locations within one of a plurality of functional sector portions formed on a circumference of a second requirement type circle that is graphically displayed below the first circle, and each of the third type requirement unique numerical point values at spaced locations within one of a plurality of functional sector portions formed on a circumference of a third requirement type circle that is graphically displayed below the second and forms a column with the first and second circles, wherein each functional sector is determined as a function of a set of architectural principles;
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• draw chords between unique numerical point values located on different ones of the first, second and third circles of requirements that are derived from a same parent system, the drawing further using any chord already existing and connecting the same functional sector portions of the different ones of the first, second and third circles.

A programmable complex integrated system comprising:

• a processing means;
• a memory in communication with the processing means;
• and
• a network interface in communication with the processing means and the memory, wherein the processing means is configured to:
• characterize each requirement in a set of a plurality of requirements implementable within a plurality of components of a complex integrated system as a unique numerical point value;
• assign a requirement type from a set of first, second and third requirement types to each requirement in the set of requirements, wherein each of the first, second and third requirement types are different from each other;
• plot each of the first type requirement unique numerical point values at spaced locations within one of a plurality of functional sector portions formed on a circumference of a first requirement type circle, each of the second type requirement unique numerical point values at spaced locations within one of a plurality of functional sector portions formed on a circumference of a second requirement type circle that is graphically displayed below the first circle, and each of the third type requirement unique numerical point values at spaced locations within one of a plurality of functional sector portions formed on a circumference of a third requirement type circle that is graphically displayed below the second and forms a column with the first and second circles, wherein each functional sector is determined as a function of a set of architectural principles;
• and
• draw chords between unique numerical point values located on different ones of the first, second and third circles of requirements that are derived from a same parent system, the drawing further using any chord already existing and connecting the same functional sector portions of the different ones of the first, second and third circles.