...; unwillingness to expose information about internal operations; lack of a common understanding of the steps in a supply chain; and incompleteness of data. The objective of this work is to address the traceability challenge by developing a formal ontology that can provide a shared and common understanding...

...Soonjo Kwon; Laetitia V. Monnier; Raphael Barbau; William Z. Bernstein ontostep is a method to translate the STandard for the Exchange of Product Model Data (STEP) schema and its instances to an ontology and knowledge graphs represented in the web ontology language ( owl ). ontostep models can...

..., these design suggestions have an impact on assembly joint information (liaison), which makes the variant design a complex problem. To effectively support the designers, this work presents a knowledge-based decision support system for assembly variant design using ontology. First, a knowledge base is built...

... of design raise the challenge of capturing tacit knowledge and the ability to aid in designing design processes. In this paper, ontology is proposed for capturing, representing, and documenting the knowledge related to hierarchical decision workflows in the meta-design of complex engineered systems...

... simulation, and training domain. Extract knowledge, such as part information, assembly constraints, and kinematic motions as well as resources from a CAD/CAE tool, and define assembly procedures. Populate the knowledge into ontologies. (2) Knowledge management Maintain up-to-date domain...

.... 3 Relationships in the sustainability categories ontology Standards can be complex and it can often be cumbersome to find the information sought. Researchers at NIST proposed use of the Zachman framework [ 10 ] to break down the information in a standard into an organized structure...

... and Evaluation Criteria for DMSMS Tools, Databases and Services ,” Proceedings of the Aging Aircraft Conference , Palm Springs, CA . [12] Noy , N. F. , and McGuiness , D. L. , 2001 , “ Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology ,” Stanford Knowledge Systems laboratory...

... with various sources of inspiration. This paper concentrates on OntoTag , the semantic-based image retrieval algorithm developed within the TRENDS project, and its evaluation. OntoTag uses concepts from a general-purpose lexical ontology called OntoRo , and semantic adjectives from a domain-specific ontology...

... study is presented to illustrate two key features of the approach: (1) seamless integration of separate modular domain ontologies and instance knowledge related to engineering design that are needed to support decision making and (2) the explicit documentation of design rationale through design...

...Paul Witherell; Sundar Krishnamurty; Ian R. Grosse This paper presents an optimization ontology and its implementation into a prototype computational knowledge-based tool dubbed ONTOP (ontology for optimization). Salient feature of ONTOP include a knowledge base that incorporates both standardized...

...Saeema Ahmed; Sanghee Kim; Ken M. Wallace This paper describes a six-stage methodology for developing ontologies for engineering design, together with the research methods and evaluation of each stage. The methodology focuses upon understanding a user’s domain models through empirical research...

...Jyotirmaya Nanda; Timothy W. Simpson; Soundar R. T. Kumara; Steven B. Shooter The use of ontologies for information sharing is well documented in the literature, but the lack of a comprehensive and systematic methodology for constructing product ontologies has limited the process of developing...