ONTOLOGY-DRIVEN PRODUCT CONFIGURATION - Industrial Use Case

Alexander Smirnov, Nikolay Shilov, Alexey Kashevnik, Thomas Jung, Mario Sinko, Andreas Oroszi

2011

Abstract

The paper proposes an approach based on application of ontology management technology to the tasks of product configuration and product code design in an industrial company. The development of the approach includes usage of Web-services for industrial environment representation and context-based information processing to facilitate the product configuration task. The research is illustrated via a case study for an industrial company that has more than 300 000 customers in 176 countries. A use case for ontology-driven product configuration demonstrates the applicability of the approach.

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Smirnov A., Shilov N., Kashevnik A., Jung T., Sinko M. and Oroszi A. (2011). ONTOLOGY-DRIVEN PRODUCT CONFIGURATION - Industrial Use Case . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-81-2, pages 38-47. DOI: 10.5220/0003635100380047


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@conference{kmis11,
author={Alexander Smirnov and Nikolay Shilov and Alexey Kashevnik and Thomas Jung and Mario Sinko and Andreas Oroszi},
title={ONTOLOGY-DRIVEN PRODUCT CONFIGURATION - Industrial Use Case},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={38-47},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003635100380047},
isbn={978-989-8425-81-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2011)
TI - ONTOLOGY-DRIVEN PRODUCT CONFIGURATION - Industrial Use Case
SN - 978-989-8425-81-2
AU - Smirnov A.
AU - Shilov N.
AU - Kashevnik A.
AU - Jung T.
AU - Sinko M.
AU - Oroszi A.
PY - 2011
SP - 38
EP - 47
DO - 10.5220/0003635100380047