Everything about IDEF3

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: IDEF3A 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Parametric Analysis of Structural Models of Interacting Processes Based on IDEF3Influential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: IDEF3 Formalization ReportThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Application of IDEF0, IDEF3 and UML methodologies in the creation of information modelsCited 49 times
5. Go sideways: IDEFA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: IDEF5A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Application of IDEF0, IDEF3 and UML methodologies in the creation of information models

  J. M. Dorador, R. I. M. Young · 2000 · International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing · 49 citations

• Application and assessment of IDEF3‐process flow description capture method

  Antonella Plaia, Allan Carrie · 1995 · International Journal of Operations & Production Management · 18 citations

• Integration of queuing network and IDEF3 for business process analysis

  Ki‐Young Jeong, Hyunbo Cho, Don T. Phillips · 2008 · Business Process Management Journal · 14 citations

• An integrated use of IDEF0, IDEF3 and Petri net methods in support of business process modelling

  C-H Kim, D-S Yim, R H Weston · 2001 · Proceedings of the I MECH E Part E Journal of Process Mechanical Engineerin · 10 citations

• Сравнение нотаций DFD, IDEF0, IDEF3, EPC и BPMN с нотацией УФО-анализа

  Ольга Анатольевна Зимовец, Елена Викторовна Малкуш, Сергей Игоревич Маторин · 2024 · Экономика. Информатика · 4 citations

• Analyzing the Process of Dynamic System Diagnostics by OSTN Diagrams of IDEF3 Technology

  Saint-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation, G. S. Britov · 2016 · Informatsionno-upravliaiushchie sistemy (Information and Control Systems) · 1 citations

• Application of the Theory of Petri Nets in the Development of Simulation Models of Business Processes Based on the IDEF3 Methodology

  David A. Petrosov · 2023 · Computational nanotechnology · 0 citations

• Application of the theory of petri nets in the development of simulation models of business processes based on the IDEF3 methodology

  David А. Petrosov · 2024 · Computational nanotechnology · 0 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Parametric Analysis of Structural Models of Interacting Processes Based on IDEF3

  Southwest State University, Alexander G. Ivakhnenko, Federal State-Owned Enterprise Kursk Biofactory – Company BIOK · 2024 · Vestnik of Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University · 0 citations

• DEVELOPMENT OF AN ADAPTIVE BPMN MODEL FOR CYBERSECURITY INCIDENT MANAGEMENT USING CAMUNDA WITH IDEF3-SCENARIO-BASED VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS

  Olena ZAMIKHOVSKA · 2026 · Scientific papers of Donetsk National Technical University. Series: Informatics, Cybernetics and Computer Science · 0 citations

• Сравнительный анализ нотаций моделирования бизнес-процессов: IDEF0, IDEF3, EPC и BPMN

  В.А. Головкин, Р.А. Ковязин, А.В. Трухин · 2026 · Актуальные вопросы современной экономики · 0 citations

• МОДЕЛЮВАННЯ ОПЕРАЦІЙНИХ МІСІЙ РОЇВ БЕЗПІЛОТНИХ ЛІТАЛЬНИХ АПАРАТІВ З ВИКОРИСТАННЯМ МЕТОДІВ IDEF0 ТА IDEF3

  О.М. Компанієць, В.А. Таршин, М.М. Колмиков · 2025 · Системи озброєння і військова техніка · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕IDEF3 Formalization Report · 2018
• 📕Idef3 Formalization Report · 2018
• 📕IDEF3 formalization reportChristopher P. Menzel · 1991
• 📕Automated IDEF3 and IDEF4 systems design specifications documentPatricia Griffith Friel · 1989
• 📕Automated IDEF3 and IDEF4 Systems Design Specification Document · 2018
• 📕Automated Idef3 and Idef4 Systems Design Specification Document · 2018
• 📕IDEF3 technical report, version 1.0Richard J. Mayer · 1991
• 📕IDEF3 technical report, version 1.0Richard J. Mayer · 1991

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