Acknowledgements and Release History

The Guide to the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK) has been an immense undertaking involving the collective efforts of so many, including 70 authors, hundreds of reviewers, and the wiki support team. A special thanks goes to our primary sponsor, the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering, who has provided unwavering support over the past three years.

With gratitude,

BKCASE

The SEBoK was developed by the Body of Knowledge and Curriculum to Advance Systems Engineering Project (BKCASE) (http://www.bkcase.org), which is concurrently producing the Graduate Reference Curriculum for Systems Engineering (GRCSE). Nearly everyone involved in BKCASE has contributed to both products. Hence, the acknowledgements generally do not distinguish between contributions to SEBoK and GRCSE.

Sponsor

This material is based upon work supported, in whole or in part, by the U.S. Department of Defense through the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) under Contract H98230-08-D-0171. SERC is a federally funded University Affiliated Research Center managed by Stevens Institute of Technology. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Department of Defense.

The Department of Defense recognizes the importance of SEBoK to its own workforce development and has provided substantial financial support and partnership to the project. The office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering (DASD/SE) is the primary Department of Defense sponsor for the BKCASE Project. DASD/SE has graciously provided much of the funding for SEBoK development through their Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) (see http://www.sercuarc.org). Those funds have primarily paid for the time spent by the SEBoK leadership, enabled the many volunteer authors to conduct quarterly physical workshops, and provided for the technical and administrative infrastructure to conduct such a complex distributed project. DASD/SE has not determined the content of the SEBoK, but instead allows the author team and the community to determine what the SEBoK should contain. Without this support, this project would not be possible. Special thanks go to Stephen Welby, Kristen Baldwin, Nicholas Torelli, Don Gelosh, and Scott Lucero.

The remaining two thirds of the project cost were donations in-kind by our partners to support the labor and travel of the authors. We gratefully acknowledge their contributions.

Part Team Leads

The SEBoK is divided into seven primary Parts (see SEBoK Table of Contents). For each of the Parts, someone graciously volunteered to lead a team of authors in writing the articles and coordinating article integration. This was an enormous amount of work. We would like to thank each of these individuals for their time, dedication, and leadership. In addition, a member of the core team supported each of the part team leads.

• Part 1 - Barry Boehm with support from Art Pyster
• Part 2 - Richard Adcock with support from Nicole Hutchison
• Part 3 - Garry Roedler with support from James Anthony
• Part 4 - Harold (Bud) Lawson with support from David Olwell
• Part 5 - Art Pyster with support from Alice Squires and Deva Henry
• Part 6 - David Olwell with support from Art Pyster
• Part 7 - Heidi Davidz with support from Alice Squires and Deva Henry

Authors

As a primarily volunteer effort, BKCASE has depended on dozens of authors from around the world to provide their own time and expenses. Each of the individuals listed below has worked many hours to develop and improve SEBoK and GRCSE. Without each of them, it would have been impossible to succeed. Many of them have been supported by their organizations during this effort, including support for travel and labor, and we also gratefully acknowledge the organizational contribution.

Table 1. BKCASE Authors. (SEBoK Original)

Richard Adcock, Cranfield University and International Council on Systems Engineering in the UK	Duane Hyberston, The MITRE Corporation in the US
James F. Anthony, Jr., Decisive Analytics Corporation in the US	Scott Jackson, University of Southern California in the US
Erik Aslaksen, Sinclair Knight Merz in Australia,	Mo Jamshidi, University of Texas San Antonio in the US
Richard Beasley, Rolls Royce in the UK	Cheryl Jones, United States Army
Barry Boehm, University of Southern California in the US	Chul Whan Kim, Advisor of KCOSE in Korea
Stuart Booth, Office of the Secretary of Defense in the US	Naohiko Kohtake, KEIO University in Japan
John Brackett, Boston University in the US	Harold (Bud) Lawson, Lawson Konsult AB in Sweden
Chuck Calvano, Naval Postgraduate School in the US	Yeaw lip “Alex” Lee, Defence Science and Technology Agency in Singapore
Aaron Eng Seng Chia, National University of Singapore in Singapore	Ray Madachy, Naval Postgraduate School in the US
Kyung-il Choe, HUFS in Korea	James Martin, The Aerospace Corporation in the US
Edmund Conrow, Management and Technology Associates in the US	Gregory Mayhew, Boeing in the US
Paul Croll, CSC in the US	Steven Mitchell, Lockheed Martin in the US
Cihan Dagli, Missouri University of Science and Technology in the US	Ken Nidiffer, Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute and Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Systems Council both in the US
Judith Dahmann, MITRE in the US	David H. Olwell, Naval Postgraduate School in the US
Heidi Davidz, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne in the US	Bo Oppenheim, Loyola Marymount University in the US
Leopoldo Decardenas, Raytheon in the US	Andy Pickard, Rolls-Royce in the US
Johann (Hans) Demmel, Raytheon in the US	Ricardo Pineda, University Texas at El Paso in the US
Jeremy Dick, Integrate Systems Engineering ltd. in the US	Daniel Prun, Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile (ENAC) -French Civil Aviation University in France
Charles Dickerson, Loughborough University in the UK	Art Pyster, Stevens Institute of Technology in the US
David Dorgan, Raytheon in the US	Garry Roedler, Lockheed Martin in the US
Dov Dori, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US	Jean-Claude Roussel, European Aeronautical Defence and Space Company in France
Joseph J. Ekstrom, Brigham Young University in the US	Janet Singer, University of California Santa Cruz in the US
Stephanie Enck, Naval Postgraduate School in the US	Seiko Shirasaka, KEIO University in Japan
Marcia Enos, Lockheed Martin in the US	Hillary Sillitto, Thales Group and the International Council on Systems Engineering in the UK
Dick Fairley, Observer and Author from Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) in the US	John Snoderly, Defense Acquisition University in the US
Alain Faisandier, Association Francaise d 'Ingenlerie Systeme in France	Alice Squires, Stevens Institute of Technology in the US
Tim Ferris, University of South Australia and the International Council on Systems Engineering in Australia	Bill Stiffler, Raytheon in the US
Kevin Forsberg, OGR Systems in the US	Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in the US
G. Richard Freeman, Air Force Institute of Technology in the US	Guilherme Horta Travassos, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in Brazil
Sanford Friedenthal, SAF Consulting in the US	Ricardo Valerdi, University of Arizona in the US
Brian Gallagher, CACI in the US	Mary VanLeer, Perceptive Systems, Inc. in the US
Devanandham Henry, Stevens Institute of Technology in the US	Qing Wang, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China
Michael Henshaw, Loughborough University in the UK	Brian Wells, Raytheon in the US
Thomas Hilburn, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Computer Society both in the US	Brian White, CAU<SES in the US
Nicole A.C. Hutchison, Stevens Institute of Technology in the US	Ken Zemrowski, TASC, Inc. in the US

Partners

Partner organizations have supported SEBoK by providing personnel, opportunities to discuss the SEBoK in open forums such as conferences and workshops, and providing valued feedback on draft SEBoK materials. Some organizations have also chosen to have an official representative(s) participate in BKCASE, as shown below. A special thanks to our partners.

• The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE). Official INCOSE representatives: Bill Miller and Kevin Forsberg.
• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society. Official IEEE CS representatives are Dick Fairley, Tom Hilburn and Ken Nidiffer.
• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Systems Council. The official IEEE Systems Council representative is Ken Nidiffer.
• The Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE). The official IIE representative is Johann "Hans" Demmel.
• The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The official ACM Representative is Andrew McGettrick.
• The National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) Systems Engineering Division. The official NDIA Systems Engineering Division representative is Garry Roedler.
• The Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC). The official Systems Engineering Research Center representative is Art Pyster.

For more information on potential partner involvement after publication of version 1.0, please see SEBoK Evolution.

Wiki Team

The transition from a traditional document to a wiki-based platform was a long one. We are tremendously grateful to the folks who have helped us install, manage, and update the wiki:

• Nicole Hutchison (team lead), Stevens Institute of Technology
• Stephanie Enck (co-lead), Naval Postgraduate School
• Hans-Peter de Koning, European Space Agency
• Paola Di Maio, University of Strathclyde
• Ray Jorgensen, Rockwell Collins
• Sanford Friedenthal, SAF Consulting
• Steven Mitchell, Lockheed Martin

Support for the wiki is provided by Peder Halseide of WikiExpert.

Participants

The following individuals have provided support to the BKCASE team over the course of the project.

• Johann Amsenga
• John Baras
• Johan Bendz
• Stuart Booth
• Dan Cernoch
• Richard Frost
• Edward Ghafari
• Mike Gourley
• Richard Gryzbowski
• Peter Jackson
• Kenneth Kepchar
• Mike Kreuger
• JoAnn Lane
• Greg Mayhew
• Richard Rosenthal
• Sven-Olaf Schulze
• Robert (Bob) Shishko
• Mary Jane Willshire

Reviewers

Reviewers are critical to the success and growth of the SEBoK. By providing feedback that represents the diversity of views and opinions on systems engineering, reviewers help the author team identify and describe ground truths for SE as well as areas of contention. The reviewers who provided feedback for earlier version 0.25, 0.50, and 0.75 are listed in Table 2, below. In addition to those listed below, there are a number of other reviewers who provided their comments directly on the wiki with only a userid and not a full name. Many thanks to all reviewers. The adjudication of all SEBoK review comments can be found at SEBoK Review and Adjudication.

The author team would like to particularly acknowledge the efforts of several INCOSE working groups (WGs); the following groups provided extensive feedback on SEBoK 0.5 and input for SEBoK 0.75:

• Systems Science WG
• Architecture WG
• Requirements WG
• Decision Analysis WG
• In Service WG
• Lean Systems Engineering WG
• System of Systems WG
• Process Improvement WG

SEBoK v. 1.9.1 released 30 September 2018

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