A methodology for product family ontology development using formal concept analysis and web ontology language

Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 103-113

  Nanda, Jyotirmaya ^a,e   Simpson, Timothy W ^a,b   Kumara, Soundar R T ^b,c   Shooter, Steven B ^b,d  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ASME   (United States)

^c The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^d BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Formal concept analysis; Ontology; Product family; Semantic web

Indexed keywords

FORMAL CONCEPT ANALYSIS (FCA); ONTOLOGY; PRODUCT FAMILY; SEMANTIC WEB;

COSTS; DATA STRUCTURES; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION THEORY; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 33745902837     PISSN: 15309827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2190237     Document Type: Article

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