The well-founded semantics for general logic programs
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Logical foundations of object-oriented and frame-based languages
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
OntoEdit: Guiding Ontology Development by Methodology and Inferencing
On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems, 2002 - DOA/CoopIS/ODBASE 2002 Confederated International Conferences DOA, CoopIS and ODBASE 2002
OntoEdit: Collaborative Ontology Development for the Semantic Web
ISWC '02 Proceedings of the First International Semantic Web Conference on The Semantic Web
Ontobroker: Ontology Based Access to Distributed and Semi-Structured Information
DS-8 Proceedings of the IFIP TC2/WG2.6 Eighth Working Conference on Database Semantics- Semantic Issues in Multimedia Systems
An extensible approach for modeling ontologies in RDF(S)
Knowledge media in healthcare
Towards a generic model of configuraton tasks
IJCAI'89 Proceedings of the 11th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Inheritance in rule-based frame systems: semantics and inference
Journal on Data Semantics VII
Ontology maintenance in high level architecture federation development and execution process
Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering
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Besides the reduction of time to market, there may be observed another trend in the automotive industry: built-to-order. Built-to-order reduces the mass production of cars to a limited-lot-production. Emphasis for optimization issues moves then from the production step to earlier steps as the collaboration of suppliers and manufacturer in development and delivering. Thus knowledge has to be shared between different organizations and departments in early development processes. In this paper we describe a project in the automotive industry where ontologies have two main purposes: (i) representing and sharing knowledge to optimize business processes for the testing of cars and (ii) integration of life data into this optimization process. A test car configuration assistant (semantic guide) is built on top of an inference engine equipped with an ontology containing information about parts and configuration rules. The ontology is attached to the legacy systems of the manufacturer and thus accesses and integrates up-to-date information. This semantic guide accelerates the configuration of test cars and thus reduces time to market.