Résumé
Design patterns are widely used in software engineering. Building on lessons learned in this domain, this article proposes a suitable design pattern meta model for systems engineering with two goals. The first one is to help designers able to leverage and reuse knowledge required in various engineering domains during design phases. The second one is to propose and formalize an approach that allows designers and systems architects to identify relevant design patterns and apply them in a semi-automatic manner. This approach consists to improve model alignment techniques based on model interoperability hypothesis.