Integrating simulation capabilities into SysML for enterprise information system design

Performance requirements play a significant role in the design of large-scale systems, such as enterprise information systems. Systems Modeling Language (SysML), proposed by Object Management Group (OMG) for system engineering, provides for requirements specification, though a verification method for quantitative requirements as performance ones is lacking. In the information systems domain, performance requirements are usually verified using simulation. To integrate simulation capabilities into SysML the authors have proposed the concept of the Evaluation View, a discrete diagram to specify enterprise information system architecture under evaluation and the conditions under which performance requirements should be verified. A corresponding SysML profile, called Enterprise Information System (EIS) profile, has been defined. In this paper we present an approach that provides (a) the automated transformation of SysML-based EIS models defined in the Evaluation View to executable simulation code for Discrete Event System Specification (DEVS) simulation environments and (b) the incorporation of simulation results into the original EIS SysML models to enable the verification of corresponding performance requirements.