Telos: representing knowledge about information systems
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
A translation approach to portable ontology specifications
Knowledge Acquisition - Special issue: Current issues in knowledge modeling
A conceptual structure and issues for an object-oriented bill of materials (BOM) data model
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An object-oriented approach to product modeling for manufacturing systems
Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computers and industrial engineering
Logical foundations of object-oriented and frame-based languages
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Using explicit ontologies in KBS development
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Knowledge engineering: principles and methods
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special jubilee issue: DKE 25
The Unified Modeling Language user guide
The Unified Modeling Language user guide
A review of web-based product data management systems
Computers in Industry
Building a Chemical Ontology Using Methontology and the Ontology Design Environment
IEEE Intelligent Systems
The TOVE Project Towards a Common-Sense Model of the Enterprise
IEA/AIE '92 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Industrial and engineering applications of artificial intelligence and expert systems
CRC cards for product modelling
Computers in Industry
A Flexible Web-Based PDM Approach to Support Virtual Engineering Cooperation
HICSS '00 Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 6 - Volume 6
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Semantic integration: a survey of ontology-based approaches
ACM SIGMOD Record
A semiotic metrics suite for assessing the quality of ontologies
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue: Natural language and database and information systems: NLDB 03
Platform-based product design and development: A knowledge-intensive support approach
Knowledge-Based Systems
WSCPC: an architecture using semantic web services for collaborative product commerce
Computers in Industry - Special issue: Collaborative environments for concurrent engineering
Ontology Evaluation and Ranking using OntoQA
ICSC '07 Proceedings of the International Conference on Semantic Computing
ppXML: A generic and extensible language for lifecycle modelling of platform products
Computers in Industry
PRoduct ONTOlogy: Defining product-related concepts for logistics planning activities
Computers in Industry
OWL/SWRL representation methodology for EXPRESS-driven product information model
Computers in Industry
A Semantic Web-Based Architecture to Support Product Data Management Systems
LA-WEB '08 Proceedings of the 2008 Latin American Web Conference
Requirements-oriented methodology for evaluating ontologies
Information Systems
Measuring design complexity of semantic web ontologies
Journal of Systems and Software
OntoCAPE: A Re-Usable Ontology for Chemical Process Engineering
OntoCAPE: A Re-Usable Ontology for Chemical Process Engineering
A proposal for a unified process for ontology building: UPON
DEXA'05 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
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Nowadays, it is quite common for collaborating organizations (or even different areas within a company) to develop and maintain their own product model. This situation leads to information duplication and its associated problems. Besides, traditional product models do not properly handle the high number of variants managed in today competitive markets. In addition, there is a need for an integrated product model to be shared by all the organizations participating in global supply chains (SCs) or all the areas within a company. One way to reach an intelligent integration among product models is by means of an ontology. PRoduct ONTOlogy (PRONTO) is an ontology for the product modeling domain, able to efficiently handle product variants. It defines and integrates two hierarchies to represent product information: the abstraction hierarchy (AH) and the structural one (SH). This contribution presents a ConceptBase formal specification of PRONTO that focuses on the structural hierarchy of products. This hierarchy is a tool to handle product information associated with the multiple available recipes or processes to manufacture a particular product or a set of similar products. The formal specification presented in the paper also includes mechanisms to infer structural information from the explicit knowledge represented at each of the AH levels: Family, VariantSet and Product. This proposal efficiently handles a great number of variants and allows representing product information with distinct granularity degrees, which is a requirement for planning activities taking place at different time horizons. PRONTO easily manages crucial features that should be taken into account in a product representation, such as the efficient handling of product families and variants concepts, composition and decomposition structures and the possibility of specifying constraints. To demonstrate the semantic expressiveness of the proposed ontology a food industry related case-study is addressed and discussed in detail.