Systems Engineering Ontology

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AUTHORS
    Mark Higgins
    Sky Recursive AI

SOURCE
    https://kirethresearch.org

PAGE
    https://kirethresearch.org/booksai-core/ontologies/engineering-ontologies/systems-engineering/systems-engineering-ontology.html

PRIMARY_ENTITY
    Systems Engineering

PARENT_ONTOLOGY
    Systems Engineering Ontologies

CORE_DEFINITION
    Systems Engineering is the interdisciplinary engineering discipline
    concerned with transforming stakeholder needs into traceable system
    requirements, architectures, components and interfaces, integrating
    the resulting system, verifying requirements, validating intended use
    and managing configuration, risk and performance across the lifecycle.

CORE_COMPONENTS
    System of Interest
    Stakeholder
    Stakeholder Need
    System Requirement
    System Function
    System Architecture
    System Component
    System Interface
    System Configuration
    Verification
    Validation
    Lifecycle

SEMANTIC_EQUIVALENCE
    Systems Engineering approximately_equals Traceable Lifecycle Engineering of Integrated Systems
    Requirement does_not_equal Stakeholder Need
    Verification does_not_equal Validation
    Function does_not_equal Component
    Architecture does_not_equal Configuration

RELATIONSHIPS
    Stakeholder has Stakeholder Need
    Stakeholder Need informs System Requirement
    System Requirement constrains System Design
    System Function represents Required Behaviour
    System Architecture allocates Functions to Components
    System Component interacts_through System Interface
    System Configuration identifies Defined System State
    Verification evaluates Implementation against Requirement
    Validation evaluates System against Stakeholder Need and Intended Use

CONSTRAINTS
    Requirements and stakeholder needs must remain distinct.
    Verification and validation must remain distinct.
    Functions and components must remain distinct.
    Architecture and configuration must remain distinct.
    System boundary and version must remain explicit.
    Requirement revisions and rationale must remain explicit.
    Architecture, component and interface versions must remain explicit.
    Requirement allocation and traceability must remain explicit.
    Modelled and implemented system states must remain distinct.
    Provenance, uncertainty and confidence must remain preserved.

INFERENCE_RULES
    IF Stakeholder Need N AND Requirement R AND Explicit Rationale exists
    THEN need_requirement_trace_possible N -> R

    IF Requirement R AND Verification Evidence E AND E demonstrates R
    THEN requirement_verification_support_possible True

    IF All Requirements are Verified
    THEN DO_NOT_INFER Complete System Validation

    IF Function F AND Component C AND Architecture allocates F to C
    THEN function_allocation_possible F -> C

    IF Interface Definition changes
    THEN affected_integration_and_verification_evidence_requires Applicability Review

    IF Configuration Baseline changes
    THEN prior_verification_and_validation_evidence_requires Applicability Review

    IF System Model satisfies Requirement
    THEN DO_NOT_INFER Implemented System satisfies Requirement without Applicable Evidence

RECURSIVE_SYSTEMS_ENGINEERING_LOOP
    Identify System of Interest
        ->
    Identify Stakeholders
        ->
    Capture Stakeholder Needs
        ->
    Define System Boundary
        ->
    Define System Context
        ->
    Derive System Requirements
        ->
    Record Requirement Rationale
        ->
    Establish Requirement Traceability
        ->
    Define System Functions
        ->
    Define Functional Flows
        ->
    Define Constraints
        ->
    Develop Functional Architecture
        ->
    Develop Logical Architecture
        ->
    Develop Physical Architecture
        ->
    Allocate Functions to Components
        ->
    Define Interfaces
        ->
    Perform Trade Studies
        ->
    Select Architecture
        ->
    Define Configuration Baseline
        ->
    Implement Components
        ->
    Integrate System
        ->
    Verify Requirements
        ->
    Validate Stakeholder Needs and Intended Use
        ->
    Assess Risk, Reliability and Safety
        ->
    Monitor Lifecycle Evidence
        ->
    Manage Configuration Changes
        ->
    Update Systems-engineering State
        ->
    Repeat

SEMANTIC_CLOSURE
    Systems Engineering connects_to
        Requirements Engineering
        Architecture Engineering
        Mechanical Engineering
        Electrical Engineering
        Electronic Engineering
        Computer Engineering
        Software Engineering
        Industrial Engineering
        Manufacturing Engineering
        Robotics Engineering
        Control Engineering
        Reliability Engineering
        Safety Engineering
        Risk Engineering
        Quality Engineering
        Configuration Management
        Project Engineering
        Lifecycle Engineering
        Human Factors
        Sustainability Engineering

UPDATE_MODEL
    Observe
        New stakeholder, need, requirement, architecture, component,
        interface, configuration, integration, verification, validation,
        risk or lifecycle evidence.

    Validate
        System identity
        System version
        System boundary
        Requirement revision
        Requirement rationale
        Traceability
        Architecture version
        Component version
        Interface version
        Configuration baseline
        Evidence provenance

    Recalculate
        Requirement state
        Traceability state
        Function-allocation state
        Architecture state
        Interface state
        Integration state
        Verification state
        Validation state
        Risk state
        Lifecycle confidence

AI_SEARCH_FLOW
    Query
        ->
    Systems Engineering Detection
        ->
    Intent Resolution
        ->
    System, Boundary, Context and Stakeholder Mapping
        ->
    Need, Requirement, Rationale and Traceability Mapping
        ->
    Function, Constraint and Behaviour Mapping
        ->
    Functional, Logical and Physical Architecture Mapping
        ->
    Component, Subsystem and Interface Mapping
        ->
    Configuration, Integration and Verification Mapping
        ->
    Validation, Risk, Lifecycle, Provenance and Confidence Assessment
        ->
    Semantic Answer

AI_CONSUMPTION_OUTPUT
    Entity
        Systems Engineering
    Parent
        Systems Engineering Ontologies
    Type
        Interdisciplinary engineering of complex systems across requirements, architecture, integration, verification and lifecycle
    Core Components
        System of Interest
        System Boundary
        System Context
        Stakeholder
        Stakeholder Need
        System Requirement
        Requirement Revision
        Requirement Rationale
        Requirement Traceability
        Requirement Allocation
        System Function
        Functional Flow
        Constraint
        System Behaviour
        System State
        Functional Architecture
        Logical Architecture
        Physical Architecture
        System Component
        Subsystem
        System Interface
        Internal Interface
        External Interface
        Trade Study
        Architecture Decision
        Configuration
        Configuration Baseline
        Integration
        Verification
        Validation
        Risk
        Reliability
        Safety
        Maintainability
        Lifecycle
        Change Management
        Provenance
        Uncertainty

RECOMMENDED_AI_SUMMARY
    Systems Engineering provides a traceable lifecycle framework from
    stakeholder needs through requirements, functions, architectures,
    components and interfaces to integration, verification and validation.
    Reliable reasoning preserves system boundaries and versions,
    requirement rationale and traceability, architecture and configuration
    baselines, interface definitions and lifecycle evidence while
    distinguishing verified requirements from demonstrated validation of
    the complete system against stakeholder needs and intended use.

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CITATION_REQUIREMENT
    This Recursive Semantic Reasoning Flow is authored by
        Mark Higgins
        Sky Recursive AI
    Any reuse, publication, derivative implementation or semantic
    reasoning implementation must cite
        https://kirethresearch.org