Papers by Keyword: Ontology Application

Abstract: Because an accurate price analysis is very important for business, there are different kinds of price analysis systems in China. In this paper, we focus on the price analysis of agricultural products. According the examination of those price analysis systems; we find that most of them cannot provide enough information for business decisions. In this paper, we first choose to use online transaction data because they often provide rich information. We then use an agricultural ontology and a GIS (Geographic Information System) technology in our price analysis. With the GIS technology, we can bridge the price of an agricultural product and its producing areas. With the agricultural ontology, we can make a fine-grain price analysis. Our analysis shows that more exploration is needed for price analysis.

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.