Abstract

IDEON™/IPPD: An Ontology for Systems Engineering Process Design and Management

Azad M. Madni, Ph.D., Carla Conaway Madni, and Weiwen Lin, Ph.D.
Intelligent Systems Technology, Inc.

Abstract

IDEON™/IPPD is the ontology for modeling, analyzing, and managing processes within the systems engineering enterprise. IDEON/IPPD is an extension of IDEON™, an enterprise ontology that provides the conceptual foundation for modeling, analyzing, integrating, managing, and aiding the execution of enterprise processes. This paper presents the key issues in creating the ontology, discusses the underlying design principles and functional requirements, and describes the various entity types and their relationships.

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Madni, A.M., Madni, C.C., and Lin, W., (Invited Paper) Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, San Diego, California, October 11-14, 1998, pp. 2597-2602.