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Project Lead: ISTCS.org
Project Timeline; Begins September 2011, Ends TBD
Contributors: H Sillitto
Abstract:
-This effort attempts to identify and make explicit 'top level categories' to support
the development of a system ontology.
Deliverables:
A set of ontological top level categories/existential qualifiers (diagram) and descriptors
a vocabulary for the top level categories (a dozen terms or so)
possibly some encoding/formalisation in standard language of the same (rdf?)
Working Documentation:
A link is provided to edit/amend the diagram which is intended purely
to support developement, discussions and exchanges, feel free to create and share other resources and enter
additional references below
The diagram below shows the top level categories that define 'System'
The diagram below shows the top level categories that define 'System'
If this diagram is correct, it should be possible to map any system to these categories,
if this diagram is incorrect, that is, if there are elements within a system that cannot be mapped to these categories,
then it should be necessary to additional categories:
The (candidate) categories are:
COMPONENT(s)
FUNCTION(s)
BEHAVIOR(s)
STATE(s)
INPUT(s)
OUTPUT(s)
Boundary is not a class per se, but as an emergent class that results from the dyamic combination of all
the other categories
Goal(s) is not within the boundary
The diagram below attempts to map top level categories between System, System Science, Systems Engineering
The diagram below attempts to map top level categories between System, System Science, Systems Engineering
or, another way to look at the intersections where the three main concepts 'join'
or, another way to look at the intersections where the three main concepts 'join'
The diagram below is taken from a paper by H Sillitto that discusses the relations between the three, a copy of the paper linked below
The diagram below is taken from a paper by H Sillitto that discusses the relations between the three, a copy of the paper linked below
Sillitto 2011
References
References
H Sillitto Integrating Systems Science Systems Thinking and SE rev 1.doc
ASEC 2011
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=14xS5qZx7ZEl6lWnkXTjKzYzCe2u95W9AVQwkOZCQ6sBPproDA_M1_ZqA6zwW&hl=en
...The following constructs provide a vehicle for the ubiquity of the term system and
provide a basis for unification:
(1) system-environment boundary, (2) input, (3) output, (4) process,
(5) state, (6) hierarchy, (7) goal-directedness, and (8) information
(Bertalanffy, 1968).
FROM PRESCIENCE TO EMERGENCE: TAKING HOLD OF SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS
MANAGEMENT
Brian Sauser, Stevens Institute of Technology
John Boardman, Stevens Institute of Technology
http://www.boardmansauser.com/downloads/2006SauserBoardmanASEM.pdf
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