Date of Award
Spring 2019
Document Type
Doctoral Project
Degree Name
Doctor of Engineering (D Eng)
Department
Engineering Management & Systems Engineering
Committee Director
T. Steven Cotter
Committee Director
Charles Daniels
Committee Member
Charles Daniels
Committee Member
Mamadou Seck
Committee Member
Daniel Haim
Abstract
Organizations, including government, commercial and others, face numerous challenges in maintaining and upgrading long life-cycle, complex, mission critical systems. Maintaining and upgrading these systems requires the insertion and integration of new technology to avoid obsolescence of hardware software, and human skills, to improve performance, to maintain and improve security, and to extend useful life. This is particularly true of information technology (IT) intensive systems. The lack of a coherent body of knowledge to organize new technology insertion theory and practice is a significant contributor to this difficulty. This research organized the existing design, technology road mapping, obsolescence, and sustainability literature into an ontology of theory and application as the foundation for a technology design and technology insertion design hierarchical core reference ontology and laid the foundation for body of knowledge that better integrates the new technology insertion problem into the technology design architecture.
DOI
10.25777/b3se-zt18
Recommended Citation
Michael, Kevin J..
"A Hierarchical Core Reference Ontology for New Technology Insertion Design in Long Life Cycle, Complex Mission Critical Systems"
(2019). Doctor of Engineering (D Eng), Doctoral Project, Engineering Management & Systems Engineering, Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/b3se-zt18
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/emse_deng_projects/6