Extend Component Definition to Support Defining Component Functions

[j-simmons-phd]

• This extension should leverage prior work on defining activitySteps.
• This extension should allow for component functions to be defined without their detailed activitySteps
• This extension should support generating user guides (e.g. assembly instructions, operating manuals) as well as defining a component's behavior

Steps

1. Create a Component Function element to capture a conceptual activity. behavior, etc (including inputs and outputs)
2. Determine what changes are needed in activityStep (e.g. do we need to support nesting activitySteps?, what about the assumptions of participating components?)
3. Extend Component Functions to allow capture of activitySteps in a Function
4. Extend Component to capture Functions and address assembly/operating activitySteps for Components

[j-simmons-phd]

Inspired by https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6496900