Knowledge representation and ontology mapping methods for product data in engineering applications

Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1-11

  Zhan, Pei ^a   Jayaram, Uma ^a   Kim, OkJoon ^a   Zhu, Lijuan ^a  

^a Washington State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE DESIGNS; ASSEMBLY SIMULATION; CAD/CAE; DESIGN EVALUATION; ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; FORMAL ONTOLOGY; GEOMETRY ATTRIBUTE; MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS; ONTOLOGY MAPPING METHODS; ONTOLOGY-BASED; PRODUCT DATA; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS; REPRESENTATION LANGUAGES; SEMANTIC APPROACH; SHARE KNOWLEDGE;

HEURISTIC METHODS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MAPPING; PRODUCT DESIGN; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 77955255160     PISSN: 15309827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.3330432     Document Type: Article

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