Addition to the Engineering Ontology

Framework, or DoDAF [8], This framework, which defines a way of representing an enterprise architecture that enables stakeholders to focus on specific areas of interests in the enterprise, while retaining sight of the big picture, has a number of views  

The DoDAF documentation emphasizes that DoDAF is fundamentally about creating a coherent model of the enterprise to enable effective decision-making however, as is evident even from the snapshot above, this framework is very defence-specific, and the decision-making process supported is embedded in the DoD s acquisition framework. In Chapter C6 we shall develop a model that is more directly aimed at commercial enterprises. 

In the above development of functional analysis, we have implicitly defined a number of new concepts related to the functional domain. These need to be added to the ontology we started developing in Sec. B2.4, and their definitions are contained in Table C3.1. 

Functionality The capability to perform the functions required to provide a service ability performance 

Functional element A description of one or more aspects of functionality  

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