Recognize that the web provides an optimal way to share knowledge if relevant standards are adopted. Standardize and publicly access the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge to include funding details for each project and adopt knowledge representation techniques. Create transparency and accountability standards for publicly funded SE knowledge by integrating other domain standards, promoting open systems culture, auditing knowledge quality and accessibility, and ensuring equal access.

1. 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
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Grand Challenges for Systems Engineering :
Knowledge REUSE Dr. Paola Di Maio, Director - Networked Research Labs
paola.dimaio@gmail.com
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
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IMPACT
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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, 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