Richard J. Mayer (born 1952) is an American

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who Invention, invent, design, build, maintain and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials. They aim to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while ...

, President of Knowledge Based Systems, Inc., known as lead engineer and principal investigator on the projects of developing part of the

IDEF 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 da ...

family of

modeling language A modeling language is any artificial language that can be used to express data, information or knowledge or systems in a structure that is defined by a consistent set of rules. The rules are used for interpretation of the meaning of components in ...

s in the field of

software Software consists of computer programs that instruct the Execution (computing), execution of a computer. Software also includes design documents and specifications. The history of software is closely tied to the development of digital comput ...

and

systems engineering Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering and engineering management that focuses on how to design, integrate, and manage complex systems over their Enterprise life cycle, life cycles. At its core, systems engineering uti ...

. Mayer received a PhD and worked for years at the

Texas A&M University Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, TA&M, or TAMU) is a public university, public, Land-grant university, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas, United States. It was founded in 1876 and became the flagship institution of ...

, College Station, TX. He was the lead engineer during the development of the information and data modeling methods

IDEF1 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 informatio ...

and

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 informatio ...

while at

Wright Patterson Air Force Base Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) is a United States Air Force base and census-designated place just east of Dayton, Ohio, in Greene and Montgomery counties. It includes both Wright and Patterson Fields, which were originally Wilbur Wr ...

. In 1988 he cofounded Knowledge Based Systems, Inc. (KBSI), College Station, Texas. KBSI was the prime contractor for the Information Integration for Concurrent Engineering (IICE) project, funded by Armstrong Laboratory, Logistics Research Division, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Richard J. Mayer was the Principal Investigator on the projects of developing

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 ...

IDEF4 IDEF4, or ''Integrated DEFinition for Object-Oriented Design'', is an object-oriented design modeling language for the design of component-based client/server systems. It has been designed to support smooth transition from the application domain an ...

IDEF6 IDEF6 or Integrated Definition for Design Rationale Capture is a method to facilitate the acquisition, representation, and manipulation of the design rationale used in the development of enterprise systems. This method, that wants to define the mot ...

Publications

Mayer has published several books and articles.Richard J. Mayer
Publication List 1988 - 2008 on scientificcommons.org. Retrieved July 16, 2009. A selection: * 1990. ''Conflict management : the courage to confront''. Columbus, Ohio : Battelle Press. * 1991.
IDEF6: A Design Rationale Capture Method Concept Paper
' With Patricia A. Griffith & Christopher P. Menzel. Defense Technical Information Center. * 1992.
IDEF4 object-oriented design method report
'. Armstrong Laboratory, Air Force Systems Command. * 1993.
Information Integration for Concurrent Engineering (IICE): IDEF3 Process Description Capture Method Report
'. Logistics Research Division, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433 * 1995.
Information Integration for Concurrent Engineering (IICE) Compendium of methods report
'. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio 45433-7604.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mayer, Richard J. 1952 births American computer scientists Enterprise modelling experts Living people American systems engineers Texas A&M University faculty