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The following is a list of acronyms and abbreviations which are used within the SEBoK.
Acronym | Definition |
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A | |
AADL | Architecture Analysis and Design Language |
AAS | Advanced Automation System |
ABD | Architecture Block Diagram |
ACM | Association for Computing Machinery |
ACS | Automated Case Support |
ADM | Architecture Development Method |
AECL | Atomic Energy of Canada |
AF | Architecture Framework |
AF CSE | Air Force Center for Systems Engineering (USA) |
AFI | Air Force Instruction (USA) |
AFIT | Air Force Institute of Technology (USA) |
AFRI | Air Force Research Lab (USA) |
AHP | Analytical Hierarchy Process |
AIA | Aerospace Industries Association |
AIAA | American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (USA) |
AIT | (1) Analysis and Integration Team
(2) Assembling, Integrating, and Testing |
ALT | Accelerated Life Testing |
ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
AP-233 | Application Protocol for Systems Engineering Data Exchange |
API | Application Program Interface |
APPEL | Academy Program/Project & Engineering Leadership |
ASAECP | Aerospace Systems Architecting and Engineering Certificate Program |
ASHE | American Society of Hospital Engineering |
ASME | American Society of Mechanical Engineers |
ASQ | American Society for Quality |
ASTM | American Society for Testing & Materials |
AT&L | Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (US DoD) |
ATAM | Architecture Trademark Analysis Method |
ATC | Air Traffic Control |
B | |
B2B | Business to Business |
B2C | Business to Consumer |
B2G | Business to Government |
BCRM | Business Capability Road Map |
BDD | Block Definition Diagram |
BIM | Building Information Modeling |
BIT | Built-in Test |
BKCASE | Body of Knowledge and Curriculum to Advance Systems Engineering |
BOK | Body of Knowledge |
BPM | (1) Business Process Modeling
(2) Business Process Management |
BPMN | Business Process Modeling Notation |
BSI | British Standards Institution |
BSS | Business Support System |
C | |
C&A | Certification and Accreditation |
C2 | Command and Control |
C4ISR | Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence, Information, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance |
CAA | Certification and Accreditation |
CAS | (1) Complex Adaptive System
(2) Collision Avoidance System |
CASE | Complex Adaptive Systems Engineering |
CBK | Common Body of Knowledge |
CCB | Change Control Board |
CCR | Configuration Change Requirement |
CDF | Cumulative Distribution Function |
CDR | Critical Design Review |
CDRL | Contractor Data Requirements List |
CE | Compromising Emission |
CI | Continuous Improvement |
CIMOSA | Computer Integrated Manufacturing Open System Architecture |
CIO | Chief Information Officer |
CISSP | Certified Information Systems Security Professional |
CM | Configuration Management |
CMM | Capability Maturity Model |
CMMI | Capability Maturity Model Integration |
CO | Contract Officer |
COCOMO | Constructive Cost Model |
CONOPS | Concept of Operations |
CorBoK | Core Body of Knowledge (see also GRCSE) |
COSYSMO | Constructive Systems Engineering Cost Model |
COTS | Commercial-off-the-Shelf |
CPC | Corrosion Prevention and Control |
CPI | Continuous Process Improvement |
CRM | Customer Relationship Management |
CSF | Critical Success Factor |
CSI | Continuous Service Improvement |
CST | Critical Systems Thinking |
D | |
D/C IM | Design/Construction Interface Manual |
DAU | Defense Acquisition University (USA) |
DCR | Design Certification Review |
DE | Digital Engineering |
DFD | Data Flow Diagram |
DFDD | DGIWG Feature Data Dictionary |
DFX | Design for “X” |
DGWIG | Defence Geospatial Information Working Group |
DHS | Department of Homeland Security (USA) |
DIA | Denver International Airport |
DIS | Distributed Interactive Simulation |
DLA | Defense Logistics Agency |
DMADV | Define, Measure, Analyze, Design, Verify |
DMAIC | Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control |
DMSMS | Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages |
DNA | Deoxyribonucleic Acid |
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) |
DoT | Department of Transporation (USA) |
DSM | Design Structure Matrix |
DTC | Design to Cost |
DTM | Digital Terrain Model |
E | |
E&M | Electrical and Machinery |
EA | Enterprise Architecture |
EC | European Commission |
ECP | Engineering Change Proposal |
ECHA | European Chemicals Agency |
ECP | Engineering Change Proposal |
ECR | Engineering Change Request |
EDP | Evaluation and Discussion Point |
EE&A | Enterprise Evaluation and Assessment |
EESH | Energy, Environmental, Safety and Health Management |
eFFBD | Enhanced Functional Flow Block Diagram |
EIS | Environmental Impact Statement |
EISA | Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (USA) |
EM | Enterprise Modeling |
EMC | Electromagnetic Capability |
EMI | Electromagnetic Interference |
EMP | Electromagnetic Pulse |
EPA | Environmental Protection Agency (USA) |
ERB | Engineering Review Board |
ERP | Enterprise Resource Planning |
ES | Engineered System |
ESE | Enterprise Systems Engineering |
e-TOM | Enhanced-Telecomm Operations Map |
F | |
F3I | Form, Fit, Function, and Interface |
FAA | Federal Aviation Administration (USA) |
FAST | Function Analysis System Technique |
FBI | Federal Bureau of Investigation (USA) |
FCC | Federal Communications Commission (USA) |
FDA | Food and Drug Administration (USA) |
FDIR | Failure Detection, Identification, and Recovery |
FEAF | Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework (USA) |
FEEP | Foreign Excess Personal Property |
FFBD | Functional Flow Block Diagram |
FMEA | Failure Modes and Effects Analysis |
FMECA | Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis |
FONSI | Finding of No Significant Impact |
FoS | Federation of Systems |
FPMR | Federal Property Management Regulation |
FRACA | Failure Reporting and Corrective Actions |
FRACAS | Failure Reporting and Corrective Action System |
FRP | Full-Rate Production |
FUML | Foundational Subset for Executable UML Models |
G | |
G2B | Government to Business |
G2C | Government to Consumer |
G2G | Government to Government |
GAO | Government Accountability Office (USA) |
GDP | Gross Domestic Product |
GERAM | Generalize Enterprise Reference Architecture and Methodology |
GIGO | Garbage In Garbage Out |
GGE | Geospatial/Geodetic Engineering |
GIS | Geographic Information System |
GMDSS | Global Maritime Distress and Safety System |
GNSS | Global Navigation Satellite System |
GOTS | Government-off-the-Shelf |
GPS | Global Positioning System |
GQM | Goal-Question-Metric |
GRCSE | Graduate Reference Curriculum for Systems Engineering |
GST | General System Theory |
H | |
HAZMAT | Hazardous Materials |
HCI | Human-Computer Interaction |
HEMP | High-altitude Electromagnetic Pulse |
HFE | Human Factors Engineering |
HLA | High-Level Architecture |
HMI | Human-Machine Interface |
HNA | Host Nation Approval |
HNC | Host Nation Coordination |
HRO | High Reliability Organization |
HSI | Human Systems Integration |
HST | Hubble Space Telescope |
HWCI | Hardware Configuration Item |
HWIL | Hardware in the Loop |
I | |
IBD | Internal Block Diagram |
IBM | International Business Machines |
ICM | Incremental Commitment Model |
ICSM | Incremental Commitment Spiral Model |
ICT | Information and Communications Technology |
IDEF0 | Integration Definition for Functional Modeling |
IE | Industrial Engineering |
IEC | International Electrotechnical Commission |
IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force |
IFSR | International Federation for Systems Research |
IHO | International Hydrographic Organization |
IID | Incremental and Iterative Development |
ILS | Integrated Logistics Support |
IM | Information Management |
IMS | Integrated Master Schedule |
INCOSE | International Council on Systems Engineering |
IOC | Initial Operating Capability |
IP | (1) Internet Protocol
(2) Intellectual Property |
IPDP | Integrated Product Development Process |
IPDT | Integrated Product Development Team |
IPR | In-Progress Review |
IPS | Integrated Product Support |
IPT | Integrated Product Team |
IPV6 | Internet Protocol Version 6 |
IRAC | Interdepartment Radio Advisory Committee |
IRL | Integration Readiness Level |
ISDT | Integrated Service Development Team |
ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
ISOC | Internet Society |
ISP | Internet Service Provider |
ISSS | (1)International System Safety Society
(2)International Society for the Systems Sciences (3)Initial Sector Suit System |
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 |
K | |
KA | Knowledge Area |
KPI | Key Performance Indicator |
KPP | Key Performance Parameter |
KSAA | Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Attitudes |
L | |
LBS | Location Based Service |
LCC | Life Cycle Cost |
LCM | Life Cycle Management |
LEfSE | Lean Enablers for Systems Engineering |
LORA | Level of Repair Analysis |
LRU | Line Replaceable Unit |
LSE | (1) Lean Systems Engineering
(2) Lead Systems Engineer |
LSE WG | Lean Systems Engineering Working Group (INCOSE) |
M | |
MA | Mission Analysis |
MARTE | Modeling and Analysis for Real-Time and Embedded Systems |
MBE | Model-Based Engineering |
MBRA | Model-Based Risk Analysis |
MBSE | Model-Based Systems Engineering |
MCDA | Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis |
MDA® | Model-Driven Architecture |
ME | Mission Engineering |
MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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 |
MPT | (1)Methods, Processes, and Tools
(2)Methodologies, Processes, and Technologies |
MRAR | Mishap Risk Assessment Report |
MRL | Manufacturing Readiness Level |
MRM | Manufacturing Resource Management |
MS | Meta-System |
MSA | Measurement System Analysis |
MSL | Mean Sea Level |
MSRB | Management Safety Review Board |
MSTI | Miniature Seeker Technology Integration |
MTBF | Mean Time Between Failures |
MTTR | Mean Time to Repair |
N | |
NAHB | National Association of Home Builders |
NAO | National Audit Office (UK) |
NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (USA) |
NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
NDI | Non-Developmental Item |
NDIA | National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) |
NEPA | National Environmental Policy Act |
NERC | North American Electric Reliability Corporation |
NETMA | NATO Eurofighter and Tornado Management Agency |
NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA) |
NLP | Neuro-Linguistic Programming |
NOAA | National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency |
NPD | New Product Development |
NPDP | New Product Development Process |
NSA | National Security Agency |
NSD | New service Development |
NSOI | Narrower System-of-Interest |
NSPE | National Society of Professional Engineers |
NSTISSI | National Security Telecommunications Information Systems Security Issuance |
NTIA | National Telecommunications and Information Administration (USA) |
O | |
O&S | Operations and Support |
OAM&P | Operations, Administration, Management, and provisioning |
OCR | Operations Commitment Review |
OECD | Organization for Economic Co-Operative Development |
OEM | Original Equipment Manufacturer |
OGC | (1)Office of Government Commerce (UK)
(2) Open Geospatial Consortium |
OITL | Operator in the Loop |
OMC | Operation/Maintenance/Closeout |
OMG | Object Management Group |
OODA | Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act |
OPD | Object Process Diagram |
OPL | Object Process Language |
OPM | Object Process Methodology |
OR | Operations Research |
ORMS | Operations Research and Management Science |
OSAT | On-site Acceptance Test |
OSD | Office of the Secretary of Defense (USA) |
OSHA | Occupational Safety and Health Administration (USA) |
OSM | Office of Spectrum Management |
OSS | Operations Support Systems |
OT&E | Operational Test and Evaluation |
OTP | Operations Technical Plan |
OWL | Web Ontology Language |
P | |
P&L | Profit and Loss |
P3I | Pre-Planned Production Improvement |
PaaS | Platform as a System |
PAPL | Program/Project Approved Parts List |
PBD | Physical Block Diagram |
PBSE | Pattern-Based Systems Engineering |
P-CMM | People Capability Maturity Mode |
PD | Product Development |
PDCA | Plan, Do, Check, Act |
Portable Document Format | |
PDR | Preliminary Design Review |
PERA | Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture |
PESTEL | Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental, and Legal |
PEVQ | Perceptual Evaluation of Video Quality |
PfM | Portfolio Management |
PFR | Problem Failure Report |
PHS&T | Packaging, Handling, Storage, and Transportation |
PM | (1) Project Management
(2) Project Manager |
PMBOK™ | Project Management Body of Knowledge |
PM/FI | Performance Monitoring/Fault Location |
PMI | Project Management Institute |
PMP | (1) Project Management Professionals
(2) Project Management Plan |
PMO | Project Management Office |
PMP | Parts, Materials, and Processes |
PMPCB | PMP Control Board |
PNT | Positioning, Navigation and Timing |
POET | Political, Operational, Economic, and Technical |
POM | Proof of Manufacture |
PQMI | Process Quality Management and Improvement |
PQT | Production Qualification Testing |
PRR | Production Readiness Review |
PSE | Product Systems Engineering |
PSM | Practical Software and Systems Measurement |
PSQM | Perceptual Speech Quality Measure |
PSS | (1)Product-Service System
(2)Problem Solution System |
PT | Product Team |
PUB | Public Utilities Board (Singapore) |
Q | |
QAS | Quality Assurance System |
QFD | Quality Function Deployment |
QoE | Quality of Experience |
QoS | Quality of Service |
QVT | Query View Transformations |
R | |
R&D | Research and Development |
R&M | Reliability and Maintainability |
RAA | Responsibility, Authority, and Accountability |
RACI | Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed |
RAM | Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability |
RAMS | Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Safety |
RAMSS | Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Safety, and Security |
RARA | Roles, Authorities, Responsibilities, and Accountabilities |
RB | Radio-communication Bureau |
RBD | Reliability Block Diagram |
RCM | Reliability Centered Maintenance |
RCRA | Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (USA) |
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 |
RFP | Request For Proposal |
RHP | Risk Handling Plan |
RMP | Risk Management Plan |
RMT | Reliability, Maintenance, and Testability |
RNT | Resilient Navigation and Timing |
RoHS | Restriction on Hazardous Substances (USA) |
ROI | Return on Investment |
ROSE | Risk-Oriented Systems Engineering |
RR | Radio Regulations |
RRB | Radio Regulations Board |
RSG | Radio-communication Study Groups |
RUP | Rational Unified Process |
S | |
SaaS | Software as a Service |
SADT | Structured Analysis Design Technique |
SAE | Society of Automotive Engineers |
SAE | Society of Automotive Engineers |
SART | System Analysis & Real Time |
SBA | Service-Based Application |
SBD | Set-Based Design |
SBS | System Breakdown Structure |
SCM | Software Configuration Management |
ScSE | Service-Centric Systems Engineering |
SD | Systems Dynamics |
SDO | Standards Development Organization |
SDLC | Service Development Life Cycle |
SDP | Service Design Process |
SE | Systems Engineering |
SEAC | Systems Engineering Assessment and Control |
SEBoK | Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge |
SeCSE | Service Centric Systems Engineering |
SEI | Software Engineering Institute |
SEIT | Systems Engineering and Integration Team |
SEM | Systems Engineering Management |
SEMP | Systems Engineering Management Plan |
SEP | Systems Engineering Plan |
SFR | System Functional Review |
SGIP | Smart Grid Interoperability Panel |
SIS | Software-Intensive System |
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 |
SMC | Systems, Man, and Cybernetics |
SOA | Service Oriented Architecture |
SOAD | Service Oriented Analysis and Design/Decision Modeling |
SoI | System-of-Interest |
SOMA | Service Oriented Modeling and Architectures |
SOLE | Society of Logistics Engineers |
SOMA | Service Oriented Modeling and Architecture |
SOO | Statement of Objectives |
SOP | Service Operations Plan |
SoS | System of Systems |
SoSE | System of Systems Engineering |
SOSM | Systems of Systems Methodology |
SOW | Statement of Work |
SPAC | Spectrum Planning and Policy Advisory Committee |
SPC | Statistical Process Control |
SPM | Service Performance Measure |
SRA | Strategic Rail Authority (UK) |
SRD | Service Requirements Document |
SRL | System Readiness Level |
SRR | System Requirements Review |
SSDP | Service Systems Development Process |
SSE | (1) Service Systems Engineering
(2) Security Systems Engineering |
SSEMP | System Security Engineering Management Plan |
SSM | Soft Systems Methodology |
SSME | Service System Management and Engineering |
SSP | (1) Source Selection Plan
(2) System Security Plan |
SSPP | System Safety Program Plan |
SSS | Service Support Systems |
STAMP | System-Theoretic Accident Model and Processes |
STEEPLED | Social, Technical, Economic, Environmental, Political, Legal, Ethical and Demographic |
STI | Science, Technology, and Industry Forum |
STP | Strategic Technical Planning |
SVR | System Verification Review |
SWCI | Software Configuration Item |
SwE | Software Engineering |
SWEBOK | Software Engineering Body of Knowledge |
SWG | Safety Working Group |
SWIL | Software in the Loop |
SWOT | Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats Analysis |
SwSE | Software Systems Engineering |
SysML | Systems Modeling Language |
T | |
TCSE | Telecommunication Systems Engineering |
TM | Technical Management |
TOC | Total Ownership Cost |
TOGAF | The Open Group Architecture Framework |
TOVE | Toronto Virtual Enterprise (Canada) |
TPM | Technical Performance Measure |
TPS | Toyota Production System |
TQM | Total Quality Management |
TRL | Technology Readiness Level |
TRR | Technical Readiness Review |
TSE | Traditional Systems Engineering |
TSI | Total Systems Intervention |
TSP | Technology and Standards Planning |
U | |
UC | Use Case |
UK | United Kingdom |
UL | Underwriters Laboratory |
UML | Unified Modeling Language |
UN | United Nations |
UPDM | Unified Profile for DoDAF and MODAF |
US | United States |
USAF | United States Air Force |
USB | Universal Serial Bus |
V | |
V&V | Verification and Validation |
VCF | Virtual Case File |
VERAM | Virtual Enterprise Reference Architecture and Methodology |
VHDL | VHSIC Hardware Description Language |
VHSIC | Very-High-Speed Integration Circuit |
VIN | Vehicle Identification Number |
W | |
WBS | Work Breakdown Structure |
WCML | West Coast Main Line (UK) |
WCRM | West Coast Route Modernisation (UK) |
WIP | Work in Progress |
WGS84 | World Geodetic System 1984 |
WMO | World Meteorological Organization |
WRC | World Radio-communication Conference |
WS | Web Services 2.0 |
WSOI | Wider System-of-Interest |
WS-PBEL | Web Services Business Process Execution Language |
WWII | World War II |
WWW | World Wide Web |
X | |
XMI | XML Metadata Interchange |
XML | Extensible Markup Language |