Systems Engineering Bootcamp

AGENDA

8:00 Breakfast/Registration

8:30 Applied ontology background: What ontologies are for

1980s: AI, Robotics

2000s: Biology

2000s: Semantic Web, Common Logic, AI again

9:15 Top-level and domain ontologies

Building ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology

BFO standards initiatives

A BFO-based ontology of information artifacts

A BFO-based ontology of environmental systems

A BFO-based ontology for materials science

10:15 Coffee

10:30 Domain ontology suites

Toronto Virtual Enterprise (TOVE)

SWEET, and other domain ontology suites

Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) Foundry

Common Core Ontologies (CCO)

Joint Doctrine Ontology

AFRL Digital Thread/Digital Twin

Industry Ontologies Foundry (IOF)

12:30 Lunch

13:15 Some building blocks of a systems engineering ontology

Activity

Role

Disposition

Organization

Engineered artifact

Capability

Function

15:00 Break

15:15 Interactive session: Defining 'system'

16:30 Close