Product data interoperability based on layered reference ontology

Authors:
Wonchul Seo;Sunjae Lee;Kwangsoo Kim;Byung-In Kim;Jae Yeol Lee
Affiliations:
Dept of Industrial & Management Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, South Korea;Dept of Industrial & Management Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, South Korea;Dept of Industrial & Management Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, South Korea;Dept of Industrial & Management Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, South Korea;Dept of Industrial Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea
Venue:
ASWC'06 Proceedings of the First Asian conference on The Semantic Web
Year:
2006

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Abstract

In order to cope with the rapidly changing product development environment, manufacturing enterprises are forced to collaborate with each other through establishing a virtual organization In collaboration, designated organizations work together for a mutual gain based on product data interoperability However, product data interoperability is not fully facilitated due to the semantic inconsistency among product data models of enterprises In order to overcome the semantic inconsistency problem, this paper proposes a reference ontology called Reference Domain Ontology (RDO) and a methodology for supporting product data interoperability with semantic consistency using RDO RDO describes the semantics of product data model and metamodel for all application domains in a virtual organization Using RDO, application domains in a virtual organization can easily understand product data models of others without model transformation RDO is built by a hybrid approach of top-down using an upper ontology and bottom-up based on the merging of ontologies of application domains in a virtual organization.