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IDEF0
IDEF0, a compound acronym ("Icam DEFinition for Function Modeling", where ICAM is an acronym for "Integrated Computer Aided Manufacturing"), is a function modeling methodology for describing manufacturing functions, which offers a functional modeling language for the analysis, development, reengineering and integration of information systems, business processes or software engineering analysis.''Systems Engineering Fundamentals.''
Defense Acquisition University Press, 2001.
IDEF0 is part of the IDEF family of modeling languages in the field of

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IDEF Diagram Example
IDEF, initially an abbreviation of ICAM Definition and renamed in 1999 as Integration Definition, is a family of modeling languages in the field of systems and software engineering. They cover a wide range of uses from functional modeling to data, simulation, object-oriented analysis and design, and knowledge acquisition. These definition languages were developed under funding from U.S. Air Force and, although still most commonly used by them and other military and United States Department of Defense (DoD) agencies, are in the public domain. The most-widely recognized and used components of the IDEF family are IDEF0, a functional modeling language building on SADT, and IDEF1X, which addresses information models and database design issues. Overview of IDEF methods IDEF refers to a family of modeling language, which cover a wide range of uses, from functional modeling to data, simulation, object-oriented analysis/design and knowledge acquisition. Eventually the IDEF methods hav ...
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Function Model
In systems engineering, software engineering, and computer science, a function model or functional model is a structured representation of the Function (engineering), functions (Activity diagram, activities, Task analysis, actions, wikt:process, processes, Operations management, operations) within the modeled system or subject area.FIPS Publication 183
released of IDEFØ December 1993 by the Computer Systems Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
A function model, similar with the activity diagram, activity model or process model, is a graphical representation of an Business, enterprise's function wi ...
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IDEF3
IDEF3 or Integrated DEFinition for Process Description Capture Method is a business process modelling method complementary to IDEF0. Richard J. Mayer et al. (1993Information Integration for Concurrent Engineering (IICE): IDEF3 Process Description Capture Method Report Logistics Research Division, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433 The IDEF3 method is a scenario-driven process flow description capture method intended to capture the knowledge about how a particular system works.Patricia Griffith Friel and Thomas M. Blinn (1989)"Automated IDEF3 and IDEF4 Systems Design Specification Document" Technical report. NASA Johnson Space Center. The IDEF3 method provides modes to represent both * Process Flow Descriptions to capture the relationships between actions within the context of a specific scenario, and * Object State Transition to capture the description of the allowable states and conditions. This method is part of the IDEF family of modeling languages in the field of systems engineeri ...
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Structured Analysis And Design Technique
Structured analysis and design technique (SADT) is a systems engineering and software engineering methodology for describing systems as a hierarchy of functions. SADT is a structured analysis modelling language, which uses two types of diagrams: activity models and data models. It was developed in the late 1960s by Douglas T. Ross, and was formalized and published as IDEF0 in 1981. Overview Structured analysis and design technique (SADT) is a diagrammatic notation designed specifically to help people describe and understand systems.D. Marca, C. McGowan, Structured Analysis and Design Technique, McGraw-Hill, 1987, It offers building blocks to represent entities and activities, and a variety of arrows to relate boxes. These boxes and arrows have an associated informal semantics.John Mylopoulos (2004)Conceptual Modelling III. Structured Analysis and Design Technique (SADT) Retrieved 21 September 2008. SADT can be used as a functional analysis tool of a given process, using succe ...
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IDEF1X
Integration DEFinition for information modeling (IDEF1X) is a data modeling language for the development of semantic data models. IDEF1X is used to produce a graphical information model which represents the structure and semantics of information within an environment or system.FIPS Publication 184
released of IDEF1X by the Computer Systems Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). 21 December 1993.
IDEF1X permits the construction of semantic data models which may serve to support the management of data as a resource, the integration of information systems, and the building of computer s. This standard is part of the

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Integrated Computer Aided Manufacturing
Integrated Computer-Aided Manufacturing (ICAM) is a US Air Force program that develops tools, techniques, and processes to support manufacturing integration. It influenced the computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) project efforts of many companies. The ICAM program was founded in 1976 and initiative managed by the US Air Force at Wright-Patterson as a part of their technology modernization efforts. The program initiated the development a series of standards for modeling and analysis in management and business improvement, called ''Integrated Definitions'', short IDEFs. Overview The USAF ICAM program was founded in 1976 at the US Air Force Materials Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio by Dennis E. Wisnosky and Dan L. Shunk and others.Charles M. Savage (1996). ''Fifth Generation Management : Co-creating Through Virtual Enterprising, Dynamic Teaming, and Knowledge Networking'' Butterworth-Heinemann, 1996. . p. 184. In the m ...
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Information Modeling
An information model in software engineering is a representation of concepts and the relationships, constraints, rules, and Operation (mathematics), operations to specify Semantic data model, data semantics for a chosen domain of discourse. Typically it specifies relations between kinds of things, but may also include relations with individual things. It can provide sharable, stable, and organized structure of information requirements or knowledge for the domain context.Y. Tina Lee (1999)"Information modeling from design to implementation"National Institute of Standards and Technology. Overview The term ''information model'' in general is used for models of individual things, such as facilities, buildings, process plants, etc. In those cases, the concept is specialised to facility information model, Building information modeling, building information model, plant information model, etc. Such an information model is an integration of a model of the facility with the data and docum ...
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