Systems Engineering Boot Camp
A one-day tutorial on systems engineering ontology
- Venue: Alumni Arena, University at Buffalo, North Campus
- Time: Friday, January 26, 2018, 9am-3pm
- Faculty: Barry Smith,
Participation is free and open to the public. Coffee and lunch will be provided to those participants who register in advance by email to johnc@buffalo.edu.
8:30 Registration and Coffee
9:00 Introduction and Background: Semantic Technology for Systems Engineering
9:15 Ontology Timeline 1: 1970s: Strong AI, Robotics, PSL 2: 1990s: The Semantic Web, Linked Open Data 3: 2000s: Lessons from the Human Genome Project
9:30 Principles for Ontology Building Toy Example: Military Vehicle Ontology
10:15 Coffee
10:30 Future-Proofing Ontologies The Case of the Gene Ontology Building ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology Common Core Ontologies (CCO) Industry Ontologies Foundry (IOF) Ontology for Materials Science Realizables in BFO: Roles and Dispositions
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Example Ontology from the SE Domain Functions and Capabilities BFO-based Ontology for Information Entities Product Life Cycle (PLC) Ontology Defining ‘System’
3:00 Adjourn