PRONTO: An ontology for comprehensive and consistent representation of product information

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1305-1327

  Vegetti, Marcela ^a   Leone, Horacio ^a   Henning, Gabriela ^b  

^a El INGAR Instituto de Desarollo y Diseno   (Argentina)

^b Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnologico para la Industria Quimica   (Argentina)

Author keywords

ConceptBase; Domain ontology; Heavyweight ontologies; Product family; Product model; Product structure; Product variant

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTBASE; DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES; HEAVYWEIGHT ONTOLOGIES; PRODUCT FAMILIES; PRODUCT MODELS; PRODUCT STRUCTURE; PRODUCT VARIANTS;

SEMANTICS; SPECIFICATIONS; SUPPLY CHAINS;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 80054698407     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2011.02.014     Document Type: Article

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