An ontological model of device function: Industrial deployment and lessons learned

Applied Ontology

Volumn 1, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 237-262

  Kitamura, Yoshinobu ^a   Koji, Yusuke ^a   Mizoguchi, Riichiro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Engineering; Engineering design; Functionality; Knowledge management; Ontologies; Role

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013616259     PISSN: 15705838     EISSN: 18758533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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