I think this is unfortunate. An understanding of and ability to clearly
communicate about a system is needed by a wide expanse of people of which only
about 10% engage in systems engineering. In fact, the larger confusion among
system engineering people is ambiguity about what means system. (01)
On Jan 25, 2012, at 8:31 AM, Obrst, Leo J. wrote: (02)
> All,
>
> Matthew West and Henson Graves came up with their joint Track 1&2 Mission
>Statement, along with Session Abstracts. We discussed this a bit, and would
>like the entire Ontology Summit 2012 community to see this, and comment.
>
> We think this merger of the two Tracks is useful.
>
> Thanks,
> Leo and Nicola
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew West [mailto:matthew.west@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 2:49 PM
> To: 'Peter Yim'; 'Henson Graves'; 'Nicola Guarino'; Obrst, Leo J.
> Subject: Track 1&2 Joint Mission and Session Abstracts
>
> Dear all,
>
> Peter just put me on the hook to come up with an overall mission statement
> for Tracks 1&2, which it looks like we are going to merge (as long as Henson
> is happy with that), and also an abstract for the first two sessions. Here
> goes:
>
> Track 1&2: Ontology for Big Systems & Systems Engineering
>
> Mission
> We aim to bring key challenges to light with large-scale systems and systems
> of systems for ontology and identify where solutions exist, where the
> problems require significant research, and where we can work towards
> solutions as part of this summit. The areas to be considered include:
> - working with and integrating the results of models using multiple
> modeling languages
> - the systems lifecycle and the issues of sharing data within and between
> lifecycle stages
> - the difference between requirements and the delivered system
> - systems of systems vs systems,
> - the nature of system components and the difference between these and the
> parts installed,
> - the connections between system components and what they carry,
> - systems behaviour,
> - federated systems both as a bit system, and as a solution to some of the
> challenges,
> - principles of how to construct good quality reusable models (ontologies)
> - the management of ontologies of and for large systems and the challenges
> in developing and maintaining them.
>
> session-03: Ontology for Big Systems & Systems Engineering - I: The Systems
> and Systems Engineering Problem Space
>
> Abstract
> In this session we want to look at the problems in big systems and systems
> engineering where ontology has a role to play. The aim is to uncover the
> various areas where challenges exist that the world of ontology can
> contribute to.
>
>
> session-04: Ontology for Big Systems & Systems Engineering - II: a response
> to the problem space and setting out the working program for this Summit
> Track
>
> Abstract
> In this session we will consider the output of the first session, and try to
> identify:
> - where there are solutions already available, if you know where to look,
> - where the problems require significant research,
> - where there is an opportunity to make useful progress within the
> timescale of the ontology summit.
>
> Regards
>
> Matthew West
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