Computer-aided systems engineering: Elephant Specification Language
New methods and software tools have been designed to support the transition from document-driven to model-based systems engineering.
Though bringing improvements, these methods and tools bring along several practical challenges. To resolve the issues, Ratio Computer Aided Systems Engineering continues the development of the open-source Elephant Specification Language (ESL), for which the foundations were laid at Eindhoven University of Technology. ESL is a language to write highly structured system specifications from which system architecture models are automatically derived. It has been designed from an engineering perspective rather than an information management perspective, as described in this Mikroniek article, with the ultimate goal of bridging the gap between requirements engineering and systems architecting.
