The role of the systemic view in foundational ontologies

We start from an informal definition of system to propose a discuss in foundation ontology of the systemic view. The systemic view plays an essential role to help practitioners model their domains and problems to solve. Then, we discuss the roles of the systemic view with respect to capturing dynamism, causation, function, fault, and behaviors using some examples. The paper aims to increase awareness of in depth modeling via foundational ontology by harvesting the authors' experience in different application domains.