Generating Early Design Models from Requirements Analysis Artifacts using Problem Frames and SysML

The relationship between requirement specifications and design models has been widely investigated with the aim of bridging (semi) automatically the gap between the two artifacts. The work reported in this paper contributes to this research stream with an approach for generating early design models from requirement artifacts and analysis criteria. The approach is based on Problem Frames, decomposition and re-composition analysis patterns and is supported by SysML.