Chapter 4: Data exchange

Title: Semantic structures in the product data model

Author(s): Milos S. Stojkovich, Miodrag T. Manich, Miroslav D. Trajanovich, Nikolay D. Korunovich

Address: Mechanical Engineering Faculty, University of Nis Aleksandra Medvedeva 14 , 18000 Nis, Serbia | Mechanical Engineering Faculty, University of Nis Aleksandra Medvedeva 14 , 18000 Nis, Serbia | Mechanical Engineering Faculty, University of Nis Aleksandra Medvedeva 14 , 18000 Nis, Serbia | Mechanical Engineering Faculty, University of Nis Aleksandra Medvedeva 14 , 18000 Nis, Serbia

Reference: International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management 2007 pp. 227 - 234

Abstract/Summary: The paper presents a conceptual semantic data structure of product model. The proposed data structure aims to capture semantics of product and its components and features but also to provide semantic interpretation of, in such a way, structured data. The key feature of the semantic network is shown in a new data structure of associations between the concepts in the network. This new structure represents the semantics of relations between the concepts and provides analogy-based reasoning. Following the tendency in the knowledge management to model all product properties at a higher level of abstraction in order to capture and reuse product related knowledge, we found that this kind of semantic structure could respond to the most of PLM demands.

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