Development of SEBoK v. 1.8

This version of the SEBoK was released 27th March 2017. This is a minor release of the SEBoK which includes updates to the System of Systems knowledge area in Part 4: Applications of Systems Engineering, as well as the Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability and Manufacturability and Producibility articles in Part 6: Related Disciplines.

Content and Feature Updates for v. 1.8

This section provides a summary of changes for SEBoK v1.8. See letter from the editor for a wider discussion of the changes and future plans.

This is a minor update, that features an update of the System of Systems knowledge area in Part 4: Applications of Systems Engineering where a number of articles have been updated on the basis of developments in the area as well as on comments from the SoS and SE community. This include updates to the Systems of Systems and Architecting Approaches for Systems of Systems articles, and a rewrite of the Socio-Technical Features of Systems of Systems article.

In Part 6: Related Disciplines work has been done on the Manufacturability and Producibility article and the Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability articles in which the latter has seen the addition of a focus on Data Issues and Design Issues.

SEBoK v. 1.8 Authors

Editors (in bold) and Authors who contributed materials specifically to the v. 1.8 products are listed in Table 1, below

Table 1. SEBoK v. 1.8 Authors. (SEBoK Original)

SEBoK Part	Editors and Authors
Part 4	Judith Dahmann (USA), Michael Henshaw (UK)
Part 6	Alice Squires,Washington State University(USA), Paul Phister (USA), Myron J. Hecht (USA)

SEBoK v. 1.8 Editors

The Editorial Board for v. 1.8 is listed in Tables 2, 3, and 4 below.

Editorial Board

The SEBoK Editorial Board is chaired by an Editor in Chief, supported by a group of Associate Editors.

Table 2. SEBoK v. 1.8 Leadership. (SEBoK Original)

BKCASE Editor in Chief
	Richard D. Adcock Cranfield University (UK) richard.adcock@incose.org Responsible for the appointment of SEBoK Editors and for the overall content and coherence of the SEBoK.

Each Editor has his/her area(s) of responsibility, or shared responsibility, highlighted in the table below.

Table 3. SEBoK v. 1.8 Associate Editors. (SEBoK Original)

SEBoK Part 1 SEBoK Introduction
Ariela Sofer George Mason University (USA) asofer@gmu.edu Responsible for Part 1

SEBoK Part 2: Foundations of Systems Engineering
Cihan Dagli Missouri University of Science & Technology (USA) dagli@mst.edu Responsible for the Systems Approach Applied to Engineered Systems knowledge areas	Dov Dori Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) and Technion Israel Institute of Technology (Israel) dori@mit.edu Responsible for the Representing Systems with Models knowledge area
Duane Hybertson MITRE (USA) Jointly responsible for the Systems Fundamentals, Systems Science and Systems Thinking knowledge areas	Janet Singer (USA) Jointly responsible for the Systems Fundamentals, Systems Science and Systems Thinking knowledge areas
Peter TuddenhamCollege of Exploration (USA) Jointly responsible for the Systems Fundamentals, Systems Science and Systems Thinking knowledge areas

SEBoK Part 3: Systems Engineering and Management
Barry Boehm University of Southern California (USA) boehm@usc.edu Jointly responsible for the Systems Engineering Management and Life Cycle Models knowledge areas	Kevin Forsberg OGR Systems Jointly responsible for the Systems Engineering Management and Life Cycle Models knowledge areas
Gregory Parnell University of Arkansas (USA) gparnell@uark.edu Responsible for Systems Engineering Management knowledge area.	Garry Roedler Lockheed Martin (USA) garry.j.roedler@lmco.com Responsible for the System Concept Definition and System Definition knowledge areas.
Phyllis MarbachIncose LA (USA)	Ken Zemrowski TASC kenneth.zemrowski@incose.org Responsible for the Systems Engineering Standards knowledge area.

SEBoK Part 4: Applications of Systems Engineering
Judith Dahmann MITRE Corporation (USA) jdahmann@mitre.org Jointly responsible for Product Systems Engineering and Systems of Systems (SoS) knowledge areas	Michael Henshaw Loughborough University (UK) M.J.d.Henshaw@lboro.ac.uk Jointly responsible for Product Systems Engineering and Systems of Systems (SoS) knowledge areas
James Martin The Aerospace Corporation james.martin@incose.org Responsible for the Enterprise Systems Engineering knowledge area.

SEBoK Part 5: Enabling Systems Engineering
Emma Sparks Cranfield University Jointly responsible for the Enabling Individuals and Enabling Teams knowledge area	Rick Hefner California Institute of Technology
Tim Ferris Cranfield University	Bernardo Delicado MBDA / INCOSE

SEBoK Part 6 Related Disciplines
Alice Squires Washington State University (USA) alice.squires@wsu.edu	Paul Phister MANIAC Consulting phisterp@juno.com

SEBoK Part 7 Systems Engineering Implementation Examples
Dick Fairley S2EA Responsible for Part 7: Systems Engineering Implementation Examples, which includes Case Studies and Vignettes

Graduate Reference Curriculum for Systems Engineering (GRCSE)
David H. Olwell Naval Postgraduate School (USA) Senior Editor for GRCSE.

The Assistant Editors provide general editorial support across all topics. They assist both with content improvement and production issues.

Table 4. SEBoK v. 1.8 Assistant Editors. (SEBoK Original)

BKCASE Assistant Editors
Claus Ballegaard Nielsen, Cranfield University (UK)