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Verification of knowledge shared across design and manufacture using a foundation ontology

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posted on 2016-03-10, 14:31 authored by Najam A. Anjum, Jennifer HardingJennifer Harding, Robert I.M. Young, Keith Case, Zahid Usman, Nitishal Chungoora
Seamless computer-based knowledge sharing between departments of a manufacturing enterprise is useful in preventing unnecessary design revisions. A lack of interoperability between independently developed knowledge bases, however, is a major impediment in the development of a seamless knowledge sharing system. Interoperability, being an ability to overcome semantic and syntactic differences during computer-based knowledge sharing can be enhanced through the use of foundation ontologies. Foundation or core ontologies can be used to overcome differences existing in more specialized ontologies and to ensure a seamless sharing of knowledge. This is because these ontologies provide a common grounding for domain ontologies to be used by different functions or departments. This common bases can be used by mediation and knowledge verification systems to authenticate the meaning of knowledge understood across different domains. For this reason, this research proposes a knowledge verification framework for developing a system capable of verifying knowledge between those domain ontologies which are developed out of a common core or foundation ontology. This framework makes use of ontology logic to standardize the way concepts from a foundation and core-concepts ontology are used in domain ontologies and then by using the same principles the knowledge being shared is verified.

Funding

This research was funded by the Loughborough Innovative Manufacturing and Construction Research Centre (IMCRC) and is being conducted in partnership with our industrial collaborators.

History

School

  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Published in

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH

Volume

51

Issue

22

Pages

6534 - 6552 (19)

Citation

ANJUM, N.A. ...et al., 2013. Verification of knowledge shared across design and manufacture using a foundation ontology. International Journal of Production Research, 51(22), pp. 6534-6552.

Publisher

© Taylor & Francis

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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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

2013

Notes

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Production Research on 1stJul 2013, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2013.798051

ISSN

0020-7543

Language

  • en