Using an informal ontology in the development of a planning and control system - The case of the virtual enterprise

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 1997

Authors

Soares, AL (Author) FEUP; deSousa, JP (Author) FEUP; Azevedo, AL (Author) FEUP; Bastos, JA (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: RE-ENGINEERING FOR SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION

Pages: 107-118

OE/IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Integrated and Sustainable Industrial Production

LISBON, PORTUGAL, MAY, 1997

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ISI Web of Knowledge - 2 Citations

Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-001-CX9

DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-35086-8_9

Abstract (EN): This paper describes a preliminary experience in trying to improve the communication and to reach language agreements in the context of a large R&D trans-national project, comprising partners with different academic and industrial cultures. This kind of projects has difficulties in that, besides cultural and language problems, the project teams undertake work largely by themselves, with reduced interaction with each other. The use of ontologies has a great potential in reducing those problems. Within this research work our goal is to extend the communication role of an ontology towards the mediation of the development actors ''world views''. In doing so, we intend to improve the engineering of an intrinsically complex software system, particularly in the requirements identification, system specification and system design phases, overcoming some of the referred difficulties. It is presented an extract of the Virtual Enterprise ontology currently under construction, focusing in some core definitions relevant for the purpose of developing a distributed planning and control software system. An example concerning the development of such a system is described in older to demonstrate the usefulness of the ontology based systems development.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 12