RSADT: The Enabler of Applied Understanding Technology (AUT)

RSADT stands for Rigorous SADT, the culmination of the multi-modeling potential of my 25-year-old Structured Analysis and Design Technique (TM) that will support true Concept Engineering -- in the ultimate domain where ideas are formed and transformed. SADT does not solve any problem, for it is a calculus, an algebra in the original sense of the Arabic root, which concerns not top down factoring or breaking-down into components, but rather the everywhere knitting together that heals a broken bone! That's the spirit of the approach -- the development and communicating of important ideas so that they can reliably be put to use. RSADT modeling always has a rigorously determined meaning, whatever subject is being analyzed. Mathematically, it is open to Petri-Net Simulation. If the meaning is not as desired, the only recourse is to revise the modeling. The effectiveness of the method has been demonstrated extensively over the years, as Standard for ITT Europe in Telephonic Switching, in industry in Manufacturing Technology and Enterprise modeling, as Federal Standard for BPRE, and many commercial applications, as well. But it needs to be updated, and that is my current, final project to get done.

In the half-dozen years, leading up to my unplanned retirement from SofTech, in 1994, my primary goal has been to complete my life's work by presenting for use, both RSADT and its deep foundations in Plex, the scientific philosophy that has undergirded all of my achievements since the 1950s. Throughout my career, I have had feet firmly planted in both the academic and industrial camps, with heavy involvement of major R&D from both Government and Industry.

first steps toward a self-funded RSADT Support Tool for a book and course to offer soon. All of SofTech's relevant archives of projects and product-development regarding Structured Analysis, as well as many of my own papers already are in the MIT Archives, ready to be tapped. In fact, I hope that a companion project can be the modernization of archiving technology, as an application.