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

Basic Formal Ontology (BFO)

BFO standards initiatives

A BFO-based ontology of environmental systems

A BFO-based ontology of information artifacts

10:15 Coffee

10:30 Domain ontology suites

Top-level and domain ontologies

Toronto Virtual Enterprise (TOVE)

SWEET, and other domain ontology suites

AFRL Digital Thread/Digital Twin

OBO Foundry

Industry Ontologies Foundry (IOF)

12:30 Lunch

13:15 Building blocks of a systems engineering ontology

Activities

Roles

Organizations

Capabilities

Functions

15:00 Break 15:15 Interactive session: Defining 'system' 16:30 Close