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Semantic reconciliation across design and manufacturing knowledge models: a logic-based approach

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posted on 2015-04-30, 10:15 authored by Nitishal Chungoora, Robert I.M. Young
Ontology-based models of product design and manufacture are becoming increasingly important in the effort towards achieving interoperability among various stakeholders within and across product lifecycle systems. However, in the eventuality of having to interoperate between multiple ontology-based models, with the intention of sharing knowledge among them, the process still remains a difficult one. Although the concept of ontology mapping/matching has been developed as a means to interoperate across ontology-based models, yet the concept has remained relatively weak in terms of its ability to enable the formalization and verification of cross-model semantic correspondences in design and manufacture. In this paper, improved concepts to achieve semantic reconciliation are being investigated in the context of the Semantic Manufacturing Interoperability Framework (SMIF). The approach uses a Common Logic-based underpinning for enabling the evaluation and verification of cross-model correspondences. The approach has been successfully tested by applying the relevant logic-based mechanisms, in order to show the reconciliation of two individually developed knowledge models. Through this, it has been demonstrated that the approach enables semantic reconciliation of important structures within ontology-based models of design and manufacture. © 2011-IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved.

Funding

The work developed in this paper has been supported through a research studentship funded by the Wolfson School of Loughborough University. We also wish to thank the EPSRC, who are funding the majority of our work on Interoperable Manufacturing Knowledge Systems (IMKS) under project 253 of the Loughborough University Innovative Manufacturing and Construction Research Centre.

History

School

  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Published in

Applied Ontology

Volume

6

Issue

4

Pages

295 - 315

Citation

CHUNGOORA, N. and YOUNG, R.I.M., 2011. Semantic reconciliation across design and manufacturing knowledge models: a logic-based approach. Applied Ontology, 6 (4), pp. 295 - 315.

Publisher

© IOS Press and The Authors

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2011

Notes

This article was published in the journal, Applied Ontology [© IOS Press and The Authors]. The definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/AO-2011-0092

ISSN

1570-5838

eISSN

1875-8533

Language

  • en