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Draft Federal Information
Processing Standards Publication 183
1993 December 21
Announcing the Standard for
INTEGRATION DEFINITION FOR FUNCTION
MODELING (IDEF0)
Federal Information Processing Standards Publications (FIPS PUBS) are issued by the National
Institute of Standards and Technology after approval by the Secretary of Commerce pursuant to
Section 111(d) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 as amended by
the Computer Security Act of 1987, Public Law 100-235.
1. Name of Standard. Integration Definition for Function Modeling (IDEF0).
2. Category of Standard. Software Standard, Modeling Techniques.
3. Explanation. This publication announces the adoption of the Integration Definition
Function Modeling (IDEF0) as a Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS). This standard
is based on the Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratories Integrated Computer- Aided
Manufacturing (ICAM) Architecture, Part II, Volume IV - Function Modeling Manual (IDEF0),
June 1981.
This standard describes the IDEF0 modeling language (semantics and syntax), and
associated rules and techniques, for developing structured graphical representations of a system
or enterprise. Use of this standard permits the construction of models comprising system
functions (activities, actions, processes, operations), functional relationships, and data
(information or objects) that support systems integration.
This standard is the reference authority for use by system or enterprise modelers required
to utilize the IDEF0 modeling technique, by implementors in developing tools for implementing
this technique, and by other computer professionals in understanding the precise syntactic and
semantic rules of the standard.
4. Approving Authority. Secretary of Commerce.
5. Maintenance Agency. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards
and Technology, Computer Systems Laboratory.
6. Cross Index.
a. ICAM Architecture Part II-Volume IV - Function Modeling Manual (IDEF0),
AFWAL-TR-81-4023, Materials Laboratory, Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratories, Air
Force Systems Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio 45433, June 1981.
