Architecturing the Future Citizen Competencies System: Use of ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010 International Standards as Ontology

Abstract

The future citizen competencies (FCC) are critically important to societies as they contribute to the overall well-being, development, and sustainability of communities and societies. These competencies go beyond traditional academic knowledge and skills, emphasizing qualities and capabilities that prepare individuals as well as groups of people to thrive in an increasingly complex and interconnected world. Current approaches to creating conceptual models of such complex systems focus mainly on assessment tools and interventions. Moreover, there is no standard approach that establishes this conceptual framework for the architectural description of a future citizen competencies system. In this paper, we use the ISO/IEC/ IEEE 42010 Standard created for developing intensive software systems and apply it to the architecturing of a Future Citizen Competencies (FCC) system. The proposed FCC system includes social and emotional skills such as self-awareness, empathy, communication, teamwork, and adaptability. These skills contribute to positive interpersonal relationships, effective collaboration, and the ability to manage emotions, all of which are crucial for personal and societal well-being. The ISO/IEC/ IEEE 42010 Standard is used to address the conceptualization and creation of the architecture of the FCC system through the identification of the system’s components and the architecture descriptions. It provides an essential ontology to define the concepts, relationships, and properties that characterize the FCC domain and its architecture, and the entities within it. The use of such standards is expected to help manage the complexities faced by stakeholders of the FCC system.

Presenters

Faouzi Bouslama
Associate Professor, CIS, Higher Colleges of Technologies, Dubayy, United Arab Emirates

Lana Hiasat
Senior Lecturer, General Education, Higher Colleges of Technologies, UAE, United Arab Emirates

Details

Presentation Type

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Theme

2024 Special Focus—People, Education, and Technology for a Sustainable Future

KEYWORDS

Future Citizen Competencies, Architecture, Framework, Standard