A qualitative physics based on confluences
Artificial Intelligence - Special volume on qualitative reasoning about physical systems
Artificial Intelligence - Special volume on qualitative reasoning about physical systems
A translation approach to portable ontology specifications
Knowledge Acquisition - Special issue: Current issues in knowledge modeling
Top-level ontological categories
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Special issue: the role of formal ontology in the information technology
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Knowledge engineering and management: the CommonKADS methodology
Knowledge engineering and management: the CommonKADS methodology
Representing roles and purpose
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Knowledge capture
Device Representation-The Significance of Functional Knowledge
IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and Their Applications
Functional Reasoning in Design
IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and Their Applications
Design Rationale Systems: Understanding the Issues
IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and Their Applications
Building a Chemical Ontology Using Methontology and the Ontology Design Environment
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Construction and Deployment of a Plant Ontology
EKAW '00 Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management
EKAW '02 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. Ontologies and the Semantic Web
Organizing Business Knowledge: The MIT Process Handbook
Organizing Business Knowledge: The MIT Process Handbook
Special Issue: Engineering applications of representations of function, Part 2
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
A functional theory of design patterns
IJCAI'97 Proceedings of the 15th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence - Volume 1
Physical concept ontology for the knowledge intensive engineering framework
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Deployment of an ontological framework of functional design knowledge
Advanced Engineering Informatics
FBRL: a function and behavior representation language
IJCAI'95 Proceedings of the 14th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Role organization model in hozo
EKAW'06 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Managing Knowledge in a World of Networks
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Functionality is one of the key concepts of knowledge about artifacts. Functional knowledge shows a part of designer's intention (so-called design rationale), and thus its sharing among engineers plays a crucial role in team-activities in engineering practice. Aiming at promoting engineering knowledge management, we have developed an ontological modeling framework of functional knowledge, which includes an ontology of device and function and a controlled vocabulary. This framework has been successfully deployed in a manufacturing company in daily engineering activities. In the first part of this paper, we discuss some ontological issues concerning the functionality of artifacts, and redefine the notion of function as a role. In the second part, we discuss some lessons learned in the actual deployment of this framework and two extensions based on such experience. One extension is a lexical layer for functional terms intended to help engineers select appropriate functional concepts and to facilitate the use of domain-specific terms familiar to them. The other extension is the establishment of ontological modeling guidelines, which help engineers commit to the relevant ontologies and describe models compliant with them.