WonderTools?: a comparative study of ontological engineering tools
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Ontologies for integrating engineering applications
Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering
IJCAR '01 Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning
Virtual collaborative simulation environment for integrated product and process development
HPDC '96 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
Investigating Distributed Simulation at The Ford Motor Company
DS-RT '05 Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications
An Incremental and FCA-Based Ontology Construction Method for Semantics-Based Component Retrieval
QSIC '07 Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Quality Software
Computer supported collaborative design: Retrospective and perspective
Computers in Industry
Complex Product Collaborative Design and Simulation Based on Product Master Model Technology
ICICTA '08 Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Intelligent Computation Technology and Automation - Volume 01
Research on Federation-Based Pragmatic Integration Framework
CSIE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 WRI World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering - Volume 07
Information Integration for Collaborative Product Development with an Ontology-Based Approach
IEEC '09 Proceedings of the 2009 International Symposium on Information Engineering and Electronic Commerce
Basic Study on RTI Interoperability
ICCMS '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Second International Conference on Computer Modeling and Simulation - Volume 02
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
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The reuse of existing systems is an important objective of High Level Architecture (HLA) based collaborative product development systems. However, in order to reuse an existing system, its interoperation interface has to be modified so as to comply with the objective and interaction representations defined in a corresponding Federation Object Model (FOM). Such modifications imply added time and effort, which diminishes the efficiency of system reuse in collaborative product development. This paper presents a heavy-weighted ontology-based construction method for interoperation models to support the reuse of subsystems in various collaborative contexts. In this method ontologies are used to specify the semantics of object classes and interaction classes in subsystems in a formal and computer readable fashion. In doing so, a Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) like construction method is introduced to establish the original interoperation ontology from scratch. An automatic transforming method from Simulation Object Model (SOM) into interoperation ontology is also described to make existing HLA based systems easy to adopt this approach. Then a consistency verification method is introduced to guarantee the consistency of the interoperation ontologies. A case study is used to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed method. As a human-friendly modeling method, compared with existing interoperation modeling methods the proposed method is more flexible, efficient and reliable.