Ontology for Systems Engineering (Short Version)

1. Ontology background (1970s: AI; 1990s: Semantic Web; Biology, )
2. What ontologies are for?
3. Top-Level and Domain Ontologies. The rise of modular ontology suites
4. Open Biomedical Ontologies Foundry
5. Industrial Ontologies Foundry
6. Systems as material entities with functions and capabilities
Lecture presented to INCOSE, February 15, 2018

[@BrittoCourbage]

It’s very nice and complete job. Thank you very much.

[@SuperMboli]

For me, the washing machine is also a system but not a complex one, because it has many units.

[@paulprendergast5148]

Liked the Video. Your definition of a system could be improved - the logic for example is a system - but is it a material entity ... also the system does not allow for sub-assemblies - the engine in a car could be considered a system in its own domain - but it is only as part of a bigger aggregation that its system emergent behaviour occurs ... it can be more - a component can be a system in its own right, e.g logic as applied to maths or as applied to the law or in the CPU logic gates ) - Systems have a bill of materials structure and it is only when these are engineered to provide new capabilities some of which a could be unintentential that a system is created or discovered.

[@JohanLammens]

Very interesting indeed, but how does one distinguish good from bad/"garbage" ontologies? I.e., what defines a good ontology and how does once decide on its goodness? Is there a formal way to do this, or is it a subjective value judgment?

[@Dr-Brown]

This research will be very useful to me, is there a good place where I can keep an eye on progress?

[@rgfuller2]

Do you have examples of cases where BFO made integration possible when it was not before?

[@cppmsg]

Very helpful, are the slides available to download?

[@aminabahri7638]

how use ontology with sentiment analysis

[@ronwhittaker6317]

of cource the digestive system was an intelligent design. no damn way something WITH so many other dependent systems in concert couldn't have been well thought out. not engineered ? NONSENCE. so science is just actual just magic all this time/

[@robsan5410]

It's extremely unethical for you to be doing this kind of research for intelligence agencies which enable more complete surveilence by groups with a very dubious past record. Thank you though for sharing your work with the public though.