15.1 Overview
SysML is a general-purpose systems modeling language that is intended to support a wide range of domain-specific applications such as the modeling of automotive or aerospace systems. SysML has been designed to enable extensions that support these specialized domains. An example may be a customization of SysML for the automotive domain that includes specific automotive concepts and representations of standard domain elements such as engines, chassis, and brakes.
To accomplish this, SysML includes its own extension mechanisms, called stereotypes, which are grouped into special kinds of packages called profiles. Stereotypes extend existing SysML language concepts with additional properties and constraints. SysML also supports model ...
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