Paper Title:

Ontology-Based Knowledge Modeling for Collaborative Product Development

Periodical Key Engineering Materials (Volume 455)
Main Theme Manufacturing Automation Technology Development
Edited by Bo Zhao, Guanglin Wang, Wei Ma, Zhibo Yang and Yanyan Yan
Pages 662-666
DOI 10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.455.662
Citation Kun Lv et al., 2010, Key Engineering Materials, 455, 662
Online since December, 2010
Authors Kun Lv, Qing Liang Zeng, Yan Feng Li
Keywords Collaborative Product Development, Knowledge Share, Ontology Application, Ontology Engineering, Ontology Modeling
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Abstract

The process of Collaborative Product Development (CPD) comprises highly creative and knowledge-intensive tasks that involve extensive information exchange and communication among distributed teams. Traditional information management systems fail to provide adequate capability to support CPD, due to their inflexible data structures and hard-wired usage procedures, as well as their restricted ability to integrate process and product information. An ontology-based method of knowledge management is proposed to support CPD. The key idea hiding in the method is a flexible ontology-based schema with formally defined semantics that enables the capture and reuse of design knowledge. A part of CPD-oriented ontology library represented by UML is displayed.