Clarifying Ambiguity in Aircraft Regulatory Documentation: A Review of Modeling Approaches

What is it about?

Designing new airplanes is a complicated process, often taking over 6-7 years, involving thousands of experts from many disciplines, and costing several billion dollars. One of the reasons it costs so much and takes so long is because airplanes, by law, must be safe. Software modeling tools exist to try to help manage this process, but they still have many challenges. One of those challenges is certification, which has thousands of requirements and supporting documents. It is difficult to make a model of certification documents, because they are ambiguous, complicated, and rely on experts to understand. This paper looks at three ways to model the regulations, and compares them against how well they tackle these challenges.

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