TACKLING THE CHALLENGES, WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE? Recognize that the web and electronic publishing are the de facto optimal medium for sharing knowledge provided relevant standardized good practices in knowledgde sharing are adopted Standardize and make publicly accessible Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (as SEBOK) . This include funding information for each project (as already done on EPSRC website) but also adopting ontological good practices in terms of explicit, formal and structured knowledge representation techniques Create transparency and accountability standards for SE Knowledge generated with publicLY funded research - Integrate general standards and good practices in Knowledge reuse in other domains (biology, biotechnology, health, medicine) into the SE practice - Insttigate open systems culture, initiate UK systems engineers to the joys of knowledge sharing :-) - Audit and monitor quantify, quality and accessibility of knowledge generated by publicly funding in SE - Create and implement adequate policies, ensure equal access to knowledge irrespective of gender, nationality, professional background and other discriminative bias • Grand Challenges for Systems Engineering : Knowledge REUSE Dr. Paola Di Maio, Director - Networked Research Labs [email protected] CHALLENGES Except for what published on EPSRC website, no public database exists of SE Knowledge (not even when publicly funded) CONTRIBUTION: Novel Data, Insights, method, Data Collection tools, Good practices, Evaluation criteria see complete research http://tinyurl.com/PaolaDiMaioPhD IMPACT Informed and pragmatically auditable practices in SE Knowledge Reuse will increase Knowledge Flows associated benefits Acknowledgement: Thanks to University of Strathclyde for early stage funding (2009-2011) PROBLEM STATEMENT: KNOWLEDGE REUSE in this research is defined as the ability to access, transfer and apply data and expertise generated by a researcher or team in one domain (SE), to another researcher, team in another field. Large amounts of Publicly funded systems engineering research generates knowledge which, if accessible, could be valuable to unlimited number of researches across a variety of fields, as demonstrated by the increasing popularity of Enterprise Systems Engineering. An EPSRC funded research project was undertaken to identify challenges in Knowledge Reuse in SE (DTA, NECTISE University of Strathclyde 2009-2011). Study The exploratory phase established that in the first instance non technical but bureaucratic barriers exist to access SE Knowledge due to contractual, copyright and policies of confidentiality of SE institutions, (Despite being a DTA holder of the NECTISE project, the researcher was not granted access to any NECTISE project knowledge) Further analysis was carried out by manipulating and querying data regarding SE Research published on the EPSRC (the only consistent database of SE Knowledge which was accessible at the time the research took place) SE Knowledge is 'owned' de facto by a small number of firms and institutions which operate behind closed doors, where arbitrary rules are applied,

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TACKLING THE CHALLENGES, WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE?

Recognize that the web and electronic publishing are the de facto optimal medium forsharing knowledge provided relevant standardized good practices in knowledgde sharing areadopted

Standardize and make publicly accessible Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (asSEBOK) . This include funding information for each project (as already done on EPSRCwebsite) but also adopting ontological good practices in terms of explicit, formal andstructured knowledge representation techniques

Create transparency and accountability standards for SE Knowledge generated with publicLY funded research

- Integrate general standards and good practices in Knowledge reuse in other domains (biology, biotechnology, health, medicine) into the SE practice

- Insttigate open systems culture, initiate UK systems engineers to the joys of knowledge sharing :-)

- Audit and monitor quantify, quality and accessibility of knowledge generated by publicly funding in SE

- Create and implement adequate policies, ensure equal access to knowledge irrespective of gender, nationality, professional background and other discriminative bias

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Grand Challenges for Systems Engineering :Knowledge REUSE Dr. Paola Di Maio, Director - Networked Research Labs [email protected]

CHALLENGES

Except for what published on EPSRC website, no public database exists of SE Knowledge (not even when publicly funded)

CONTRIBUTION:Novel Data, Insights, method, Data Collection tools, Good practices, Evaluation criteria see complete research http://tinyurl.com/PaolaDiMaioPhD

IMPACTInformed and pragmatically auditable practices in SE Knowledge Reuse will increase Knowledge Flows associated benefitsAcknowledgement: Thanks to University of Strathclyde for early stage funding (2009-2011)

PROBLEM STATEMENT:

KNOWLEDGE REUSE in this research is defined as the ability to access, transfer and apply data and expertise generated by a researcher or team in one domain (SE), to another researcher, team in another field.

Large amounts of Publicly funded systems engineering research generates knowledge which, if accessible, could be valuable to unlimited number of researches across a variety of fields, as demonstrated by the increasing popularity of Enterprise Systems Engineering. An EPSRC funded research project was undertaken to identify challenges in Knowledge Reuse in SE (DTA, NECTISE University of Strathclyde 2009-2011). Study

The exploratory phase established that in the first instance non technical but bureaucratic barriers exist to access SE Knowledge due to contractual, copyright and policies of confidentiality of SE institutions, (Despite being a DTA holder of the NECTISE project, the researcher was not granted access to any NECTISE project knowledge)

Further analysis was carried out by manipulating and querying data regarding SE Research published on the EPSRC (the only consistent database of SE Knowledge which was accessible at the time the research took place)

SE Knowledge is 'owned' de facto by a small number of firms and institutions which operate behind closed doors, where arbitrary rules are applied, and under strict confidentiality policy. They are not transparent, are not accountable to the general public.As a result, SE knowledge is not publicly accessible, and as such not generally reusable by other researchers in other fields of application