KEYNOTE 2 : Rebuilding the Tower of Babel - Better Communication with Standards

Abstract

The book of Genesis tells the story of how the peoples of the earth came together to build an enormous tower. To confound them in their task, God changed the languages of the different groups of people so that they were unable to communicate. Since they could not coordinate their efforts, the project was abandoned and the different groups dispersed throughout the world. The same problem exists today in the world of Architecture Frameworks. Although they express similar concepts, interchange between the different frameworks is awkward at best, time consuming, and leads to misunderstanding and miscommunication. This lack of communication was highlighted in a recent report on the conflict in Afghanistan, where the lack of interchange of architectures was cited as a limiting factor in coalition efforts and may have contributed to loss of life.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA620243

Entities

People

  • Matthew Hause

Organizations

  • Defence Science and Technology Group

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Complex Systems
  • Computer Science
  • Continents
  • Control Systems
  • Data Acquisition
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Language
  • Model Based Systems Engineering
  • Project Management
  • Software Development
  • Standards
  • Systems Engineering

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  • Educational Psychology
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Library and Information Science