3 Standards: A Perspective and Some Future Directions for the Systems Engineering Community

Velman, J.; Widmann, E.; Hudak, G. J.

doi:10.1002/j.2334-5837.1999.tb00143.x

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“…Content and Organization. This paper continues the exploration of standards that the authors initiated in [1] and continued in [2] and [3]. The ontology provides a new and expanded technical answer to the question "What is a standard?"…”

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“…The subject matter taxonomy is illustrated with examples of some of the earliest uses of standards in each category. After a discussion of the issue of mandatory versus voluntary compliance, the paper closes with an expansion of the conclusions presented in [2] with respect to management process standards.…”

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“…The ontology identifies and describes several observable properties of a standard that condition its use and understanding. A first level taxonomy of standards by subject matter was presented in [1], [2] and [3]. This taxonomy is reprised in this paper, related to types of standards identified by ISO/IEC, and the results are incorporated into the ontology.…”

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“…Within the systems engineering community, this has been demonstrated by the review, balloting and subsequent release (at the end of 1998) of ANSI/EIA-632-1998 Processes for Engineering A System [6] and EIA/IS 731 Systems Engineering Capability [7]. 1 These standards are instances of the class of standards that the authors called management process standards in [2]. 2 The recent review, and numerous comments, by many members of INCOSE, of the committee draft ISO/IEC 15288 CD 1, Life Cycle Management-System Life Cycle Processes [8] 3 has given further evidence of the strong interest in standardization by members of the systems engineering community.…”

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“…1 These standards are instances of the class of standards that the authors called management process standards in [2]. 2 The recent review, and numerous comments, by many members of INCOSE, of the committee draft ISO/IEC 15288 CD 1, Life Cycle Management-System Life Cycle Processes [8] 3 has given further evidence of the strong interest in standardization by members of the systems engineering community. [6], [7], and [8] are all instances of formal consensus standards that are issued in a formal style and are developed using a defined consensus process by officially sanctioned standardsmaking bodies; they all are standards for human activity processes intended to achieve certain goals.…”

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6.6.2 An Ontology For Standards

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Widmann²

2000

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The paper continues the exploration of standards that the authors initiated in [1] and continued in [2] and [3]. It provides an ontology for standards—a specification of the things and relationships relevant to the topic of standards. The ontology is presented using the ISO standard graphical language, EXPRESS‐G. It uses concepts from mathematical logic to clarify the content, meaning, and use of standards. Characteristics and elements of standards that are independent of any particular usage of the standard are defined. The subject matter of standardization is classified and a taxonomy is presented. Instances of earliest use of each part of the taxonomy are described. The means of establishing standards is discussed, together with the question of voluntary versus mandatory compliance. The paper closes with a set of conclusions regarding management process standards. The paper concentrates on those aspects of standards of importance to systems engineering, and includes numerous illustrative examples.

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Section: Figure 1 What and Whymentioning

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6.6.2 An Ontology For Standards

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Widmann²

2000

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1.3.4 Three Types of Systems Engineering Implementation

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2000

INCOSE International Symp

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INCOSE has been bedeviled by arguments about the definition of systems engineering. Many definitions have appeared, but the only one that is widely accepted is so broad as to be almost a tautology. As a result, INCOSE has been unable to answer many questions in a way that most members can accept.This paper claims that systems engineering can be defined in a way that leads to clean answers to many questions. This definition claims that what people have been calling “systems engineering” can be split into three basic implementations or types of systems engineering: Discovery, a discipline or specialist type that involves significant analysis, particularly of the problem space; Program Systems Engineering, a coordination or generalist type that emphasizes the solution space and technical and human interfaces; and Approach, a process type that can (and should) be performed by any engineer. Such a breakout resolves controversies and has implications on systems engineering training, research, processes, standards, and promulgation.

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3 Standards: A Perspective and Some Future Directions for the Systems Engineering Community

Abstract: Abstract. This paper gives an overview and introduction to the area of standards and standardization with the intent of providing a basic understanding useful to people involved in systems engineering.

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