Acronyms

The following is a list of acronyms and abbreviations which are used within the ‘‘Guide to the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK).’’ If you notice any acronyms that should be added, please include this in your review, using the “Discussion” tab above.

SEBoK 0.75 Acronyms. (Table Developed for BKCASE)

Acronym	Definition
AADL	Architecture Analysis and Design Language
ACM	Association for Computing Machinery
ACS	Automated Case Support
AECL	Atomic Energy of Canada
AF	Architecture Framework
AFI	Air Force Instruction (USA)
AHP	Analytical Hierarchy Process
AIA	Aerospace Industries Association
AIT	Analysis and Integration Team
ALT	Accelerated Life Testing
ANSI	American National Standards Institute
APPEL	Academy Program/Project & Engineering Leadership
B2B	Business to Business
B2C	Business to Consumer
BKCASE	Body of Knowledge and Curriculum to Advance Systems Engineering
BPM	Business Process Modeling
BPMN	Business Process Modeling Notation
BSS	Business Support Systems
CAS	Complex Adaptive System
CASE	Complex Adaptive Systems Engineering
CDF	Cumulative Distribution Function
CDR	Critical Design Review
CE	Compromising Emission
CISSP	Certified Information Systems Security Professional
CM	Configuration Management
CMMI	Capability Maturity Model Integration
COCOMO	Constructive Cost Model
COSYSMO	Constructive Systems Engineering Cost Model
COTS	Commercial-off-the-Shelf
CBK	Common Body of Knowledge
CRM	Customer Relationship Management
CSF	Critical Success Factor
CSI	Continuous Service Improvement
DAU	Defense Acquisition University (USA)
DIA	Denver International Airport
DIS	Distributed Interactive Simulation
DLA	Defense Logistics Agency
DMAIC	Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control
DoD	Department of Defense (DoD)
DoDAF	Department of Defense Architecture Framework (USA)
DoDD	Department of Defense Directive (USA)
DoDI	Department of Defense Instruction (USA)
DoJ	Department of Justice (USA)
e-TOM	Enhanced-Telecomm Operations
EA	Enterprise Architecture
ECHA	European Chemicals Agency
ECP	Engineering Change Proposal
EISA	Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (USA)
EMC	Electromagnetic Capability
EMI	Electromagnetic Interference
EMP	Electromagnetic Pulse
EPA	Environmental Protection Agency (USA)
ERP	Enterprise Resource Planning
ES	Engineered Systems
ESE	Enterprise Systems Engineering
F3I	Form, Fit, Function, and Interface
FBI	Federal Bureau of Investigation (USA)
FDA	Food and Drug Administration (USA)
FFBD	Functional Flow Block Diagram
FMECA	Failure Modes and Effects Criticality Analysis
FoS	Federation of Systems
FRACAS	Failure Reporting and Corrective Action System
FUML	Foundational Subset for Executable UML Models
G2b	Government to Business
G2C	Government to Consumer
G2G	Government to Government
GDP	Gross Domestic Product
GPS	Global Positioning System
GQM	Goal-Question-Metric
GRCSE	Graduate Reference Curriculum for Systems Engineering
GST	General System Theory
HAZMAT	Hazardous Materials
HCI	Human-Computer Interaction
HRO	High Reliability Organization
HSI	Human Systems Integration
ICT	Information and Communications Technology
IDEF0	Integration Definition for Functional Modeling (IDEF0)
IEC	International Electronical Commission
IEEE	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
INCOSE	International Council on Systems Engineering
IP	Internet Protocol
IPDT	Integrated Product Development Team
IPR	In-Progress Review
IPT	Integrated Product Team
IT	Information Technology
ITIL	Information Technology Infrastructure Library
ITS	Intelligent Transportation System
ITS-ETO	Intelligent Transport System-Emergency Transportation Operation
ITSM	Information Technology Services Management
ITU	International Telecommunications Union
IV&V	Integration, Verification, and Validation
KPI	Key Performance Indicator
KSAA	Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Attitudes
LCC	Life Cycle Cost
LCM	Life Cycle Management
LORA	Level of Repair Analysis
LSE	Lean Systems Engineering
MARTE	Modeling and Analysis for Real-Time and Embedded Systems
MBSE	Model-Based Systems Engineering
Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis	MCDA
MDA®	Model-Driven Architecture
MOD	Ministry of Defence
MODAF	Ministry of Defence Architecture Framework (UK)
MOE	Measure of Effectiveness
MOP	Measure of Performance
MOS	Mean Opinion Score
MOSES	Model Oriented Systems Engineering
MRM	Marketing Resource Management
MSA	Measurement System Analysis
MSRB	Management Safety Review Board
MSTI	Miniature Seeker Technology Integration
MTBF	Mean Time Between Failures
NASA	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (USA)
NATO	North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NETMA	NATO Eurofighter and Tornado Management Agency
NIST	National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA)
NLP	Neuro-Linguistic Programming
OAM&P	Operations, Administration, Management, and provisioning
OEM	Original Equipment Manufacturer
OPM	Object Process Methodology
OPD	Object Process Diagram
OPL	Object Process Language
OSHA	Occupational Safety and Health Administration (USA)
OSS	Operations Support Systems
OWL	Web Ontology Language
P&L	Profit and Loss
PBD	Physical Block Diagram
PDCA	Plan, Do, Check, Act
PDR	Preliminary Design Review
PFR	Problem Failure Report
PHS&T	Packaging, Handling, Storage, and Transportation
PM	Project Management
PMBOK™	Project Management Body of Knowledge
PMI	Project Management Institute
PMP	Project Management Professionals
POET	Political, Operational, Economic, and Technical
PQMI	Process Quality Management and Improvement
PRR	Production Readiness Review
PSM	Practical Software and Systems Measurement
PSS	Product-Service System
QAS	Quality Assurance System
QoE	Quality of Experience
QoS	Quality of Service
QVT	Query View Transformations
RACI	Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed
RAM	Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability
RARA	Roles, Authorities, Responsibilities, and Accountabilities
RBD	Reliability Block Diagram
RDF	Resource Description Framework
REA	Responsible Engineering Authority
REACH	Registration, Evaluation, Authorization, and Restriction of Chemicals
REP	Risk Element Plan
ReqIF	Requirements Interchange Format
RF	Radio Frequency
RHP	Risk Handling Plan
RMP	Risk Management Plan
ROI	Return on Investment
RUP	Rational Unified Process
SaaS	Software as a Service
SBA	Service-Based Application
SBS	System Breakdown Structure
SCM	Software Configuration Management
ScSE	Service-Centric Systems Engineering
SDP	Service Design Process
SE	Systems Engineering
SEAC	Systems Engineering Assessment and Control
SEBoK	Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge
SEI	Software Engineering Institute
SEIT	Systems Engineering and Integration Team
SEMP	Systems Engineering Management Plan
SEP	Systems Engineering Plan
SFR	System Functional Review
SKLTS	Standard Korean Light Transit System
SLA	Service Level Agreement
SLDC	Services Development Life Cycle
SLE	Service Life Extension
SLEP	Service Life Extension Program
SLM	Service Level Management
SLOC	Source Lines of Code
SLR	Service Level Requirement
SOA	Service Oriented Architecture
SOAD	Service Oriented Analysis and Design/Decision Modeling
SoI	System of Interest
SOMA	Service Oriented Modeling and Architecture
SOP	Service Operations Plan
SoS	System of Systems
SPC	Statistical Process Control
SRR	System Requirements Review
SSDP	Service Systems Development Process (SSDP)
SSE	Service Systems Engineering
SSME	Service System Management and Engineering
SSS	Service Support Systems
SVR	System Verification Review
SwE	Software Engineering
SWEBOK	Software Engineering Body of Knowledge
SWG	Safety Working Group
SwSE	Software Systems Engineering
SysML	Systems Modeling Language
TCSE	Telecommunication Systems Engineering
TM	Technical Management
TOGAF	The Open Group Architecture Framework
TPM	Technical Performance Measure
TRL	Technology Readiness Level
TRR	Technical Readiness Review
TSE	Traditional Systems Engineering
UML	Unified Modeling Language
V&V	Verification and Validation
VCF	Virtual Case File
WBS	Work Breakdown Structure
WS	Web Services 2.0
WS-PBEL	Web Services Business Process Execution Language
XMI	XML Metadata Interchange

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