IDEF.com

KBSI’s President, Dr. Richard Mayer, was the lead engineer during the development of the information and data modeling methods IDEF1 and IDEF1X while at Wright Patterson Air Force Base.  IDEF1X is based on entity-relationship modeling principles and is known in the DoD arena as Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 184, which is the federal standard for relational database modeling. KBSI has extensive expertise in data modeling methods (NIAM, ER, IDEF1 IDEF1X, FIPS 184) and has developed software tools for information and data modeling (SmartER®), ontology capture methods (IDEF5), ontology capture and browsing software (ModelMosaic®), process knowledge capture methods (IDEF3), and process knowledge interchange methods (PSL).

www.idef.com provides extensive descriptions of the IDEF methods and includes downloads of reports for each IDEF method as well as other related reports and white papers.

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Blood Availablity & Safety Information System (BASIS)

KBSI is designing and developing a Blood Availability and Safety Information System (BASIS) for the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).  BASIS is a Web-based application that enables DHHS to gather and analyze blood collection and usage information from civilian hospitals and blood centers to aid them in establishing policies and procedures for better blood resource management. The application provides tracking and reporting on blood inventories as well as support for emergency response and analytical and reporting tools that allow users to analyze blood inventories, detect patterns, make correlations, and forecast future blood inventory requirements.

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