Systems Validation Ontology

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VERSION 4.0

AUTHORS
    Mark Higgins
    Sky Recursive AI

SOURCE
    https://kirethresearch.org

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

PRIMARY_ENTITY
    Systems Validation

PARENT_ONTOLOGY
    Systems Engineering

CORE_DEFINITION
    Systems Validation is the systems-engineering discipline concerned
    with producing objective evidence that a complete or representative
    system fulfils stakeholder needs, intended use and operational
    objectives in defined use environments and scenarios.

CORE_COMPONENTS
    Stakeholder Need
    Intended Use
    Operational Objective
    Validation Requirement
    Validation Plan
    Validation Scenario
    Use Environment
    Representative System
    Validation Method
    Acceptance Criterion
    Validation Activity
    Validation Result
    Validation Evidence
    Validation Baseline

SEMANTIC_EQUIVALENCE
    Systems Validation approximately_equals Objective Evidence that the System Fulfils Stakeholder Needs and Intended Use
    Validation does_not_equal Verification
    Intended Use does_not_equal System Requirement
    Validation Scenario does_not_equal Test Procedure
    Requirement Verification does_not_equal Stakeholder-need Validation
    Prototype Success does_not_equal Final-system Validation

RELATIONSHIPS
    Systems Engineering contains Systems Validation Ontology
    Stakeholder has Stakeholder Need
    Intended Use derives_from Stakeholder Need and Operational Context
    Validation Requirement defines Validation Expectation
    Validation Scenario represents Use or Operational Situation
    Use Environment constrains Validation Context
    Validation Method defines Evidence-generation Approach
    Acceptance Criterion defines Validation Success Basis
    Validation Activity produces Validation Result
    Validation Result supports Validation State
    Validation Evidence supports Intended-use Assessment
    Validation Baseline identifies Validated System Configuration

CONSTRAINTS
    Validation and verification must remain distinct.
    Intended use and system requirements must remain distinct.
    Validation scenarios and test procedures must remain distinct.
    Requirement verification and stakeholder-need validation must remain distinct.
    Prototype success and final-system validation must remain distinct.
    Stakeholder and intended-user identities must remain explicit.
    Intended use and operational environment must remain explicit.
    System configuration and representativeness must remain explicit.
    Acceptance criteria must remain explicit.
    Provenance, uncertainty and confidence must remain preserved.

INFERENCE_RULES
    IF Stakeholder Need N
    AND Validation Evidence E
    AND E demonstrates Need N in Intended-use Context C
    THEN stakeholder_need_validation_support_possible True
    subject_to
        Representative System
        Applicable Scenario
        Current Configuration

    IF Validation Scenario does not represent Intended Use
    THEN validation_applicability_confidence decreases

    IF System Configuration changes
    THEN previous_validation_evidence_requires Applicability Review

    IF Intended Use changes
    THEN previous_validation_scope_requires Reassessment

    IF All System Requirements are Verified
    THEN DO_NOT_INFER System Validation

    IF Prototype passes Validation-like Evaluation
    THEN DO_NOT_INFER Final Production Configuration is Validated

    IF Validation Activity passes
    THEN DO_NOT_INFER Universal Suitability outside Defined Use Context

RECURSIVE_SYSTEMS_VALIDATION_LOOP
    Identify Stakeholders
        ->
    Capture Stakeholder Needs
        ->
    Define Intended Users
        ->
    Define Intended Use
        ->
    Define Operational Objectives
        ->
    Define Use Environment
        ->
    Define Validation Scope
        ->
    Confirm System Configuration
        ->
    Assess System Representativeness
        ->
    Define Validation Requirements
        ->
    Define Validation Scenarios
        ->
    Select Validation Methods
        ->
    Define Acceptance Criteria
        ->
    Create Validation Plan
        ->
    Prepare Validation Environment
        ->
    Execute Validation Activities
        ->
    Capture Results
        ->
    Compare Results with Acceptance Criteria
        ->
    Assess Stakeholder-need Fulfilment
        ->
    Record Validation Gaps
        ->
    Correct Supported Deficiencies
        ->
    Repeat Affected Validation
        ->
    Review Evidence Completeness
        ->
    Establish Validation Baseline
        ->
    Update Systems-validation State
        ->
    Repeat

REASONING_ENGINE
    INPUT
        Query
        Stakeholder
        Need
        User
        Intended Use
        Objective
        Environment
        System
        Configuration
        Scenario
        Method
        Criterion
        Activity
        Result
        Evidence

    OBSERVE
        Detect systems-validation entities.

    EXTRACT
        Stakeholder
        Need
        Use
        Environment
        Configuration
        Scenario
        Method
        Criterion
        Result
        Evidence

    CLASSIFY
        Operational Validation
        User Validation
        Environment Validation
        Scenario-based Validation
        Model-assisted Validation
        Physical-system Validation

    VALIDATE
        Check intended use, system configuration, representativeness, scenario and evidence.

    MODEL
        Construct supported validation-state representation.

    ANALYSE
        Evaluate context, representativeness, acceptance criteria and need fulfilment.

    VERIFY_CONTEXT
        Compare validation evidence with stakeholder needs and intended use.

    UPDATE
        Integrate validated systems-validation evidence.

CONFIDENCE_PROPAGATION
    Representative system configuration
        validation_confidence += high

    Representative operational scenario
        applicability_confidence += high

    Direct stakeholder-need traceability
        need_fulfilment_confidence += high

    Unclear intended use
        validation_confidence -= high

    Non-representative environment
        applicability_confidence -= high

    Prototype-only evidence
        final_system_confidence -= high

    Requirement verification
        does_not_establish
            Validation

SEMANTIC_CLOSURE
    Systems Validation connects_to
        Systems Engineering
        Requirements Engineering
        Systems Architecture
        Systems Integration
        Systems Verification
        Human Factors
        User-centred Design
        Test Engineering
        Operational Analysis
        Reliability Engineering
        Safety Engineering
        Risk Engineering
        Quality Engineering
        Configuration Management
        Lifecycle Engineering

    Cross-domain relationships must preserve
        System identity
        System version
        System configuration
        Configuration baseline
        System representativeness
        Validation-scope identity
        Stakeholder identity
        Stakeholder-role identity
        Stakeholder-need identity
        Need version
        Intended-user identity
        Intended-use identity
        Intended-use version
        Operational-objective identity
        Use-environment identity
        Operational-context identity
        Validation-requirement identity
        Validation-scenario identity
        Scenario version
        Validation-method identity
        Validation-plan identity
        Validation-plan version
        Acceptance-criterion identity
        Validation-environment identity
        Validation-activity identity
        Validation-result identity
        Validation-evidence identity
        Need-traceability identity
        Validation-gap identity
        Corrective-action identity
        Repeat-validation identity
        Validation-baseline identity
        Timestamp
        Provenance
        Uncertainty
        Confidence

UPDATE_MODEL
    Observe
        New stakeholder, need, intended-use, environment, configuration,
        scenario, activity, result, gap, correction or repeat-validation evidence.

    Validate
        System identity
        System version
        Configuration baseline
        System representativeness
        Need version
        Intended-use version
        Scenario version
        Validation-plan version
        Acceptance criterion
        Provenance

    Recalculate
        Evidence applicability
        Need traceability
        Intended-use coverage
        Scenario coverage
        Validation state
        Validation-gap state
        Repeat-validation state
        Validation-baseline confidence

AI_SEARCH_FLOW
    Query
        ->
    Systems Validation Detection
        ->
    Intent Resolution
        ->
    Stakeholder, Need and Intended-user Mapping
        ->
    Intended-use, Objective and Environment Mapping
        ->
    System, Configuration and Representativeness Mapping
        ->
    Validation-requirement, Scenario and Method Mapping
        ->
    Plan, Acceptance-criterion and Activity Mapping
        ->
    Result, Evidence and Need-fulfilment Mapping
        ->
    Gap, Repeat-validation, Baseline, Provenance and Confidence Assessment
        ->
    Semantic Answer

AI_CONSUMPTION_OUTPUT
    Entity
        Systems Validation
    Parent
        Systems Engineering
    Type
        Objective validation that a system fulfils stakeholder needs and intended use in defined contexts
    Core Components
        Stakeholder
        Stakeholder Need
        Intended User
        Intended Use
        Operational Objective
        Use Environment
        Operational Context
        Validation Scope
        Representative System
        System Configuration
        Configuration Baseline
        Validation Requirement
        Validation Scenario
        Scenario Version
        Validation Method
        Validation Plan
        Acceptance Criterion
        Validation Environment
        Validation Activity
        Validation Result
        Validation Evidence
        Need Traceability
        Validation Gap
        Corrective Action
        Repeat Validation
        Validation Baseline
        Operational Validation
        User Validation
        Physical-system Validation
        Provenance
        Uncertainty

RECOMMENDED_AI_SUMMARY
    Systems Validation establishes objective evidence that a system
    fulfils stakeholder needs and intended use in representative operating
    contexts. Reliable reasoning preserves intended users, use
    environments, system configurations, scenario and plan versions,
    acceptance criteria, representativeness, validation gaps and repeated
    evidence while distinguishing validation from requirement verification
    and prototype success from validation of the final applicable system
    configuration.

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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