Issue #11. Engineering transition. Significance assessing methodsfor functions and their carriers

Issue is devoted to review the general concept of relative importance and relevance in VA/VDE, the stages of analysis at which significance is determined and relevance is calculated, the principles of forming the "Significance/Relevance" flowchart, concept of "engineering transition", a list and comparative characteristics of methods for determining significance used in the domestic and international school of VA/VDE, corresponding to the VDI series standards, visualization tools and automation of the process of assessing significance and relevance.