A THREE LEVEL ABSTRACTION HIERARCHY TO REPRESENT PRODUCT STRUCTURAL INFORMATION

Marcela Vegetti, Horacio Leone, Gabriela P. Henning

2010

Abstract

Product models should integrate and efficiently manage all the information associated with products in the context of industrial enterprises or supply chains (SCs). Nowadays, it is quite common for an organization and even, each area within a company, to have its own product model. This situation leads to information duplication and its associated problems. In addition, traditional product models do not properly handle the high number of variants managed in today competitive markets. Therefore, there is a need for an integrated product model to be shared by the organizations participating in global SCs or all areas within a company. One way to reach an intelligent integration among product models is by means of an ontology. PRONTO (PRoduct ONTOlogy) is an ontology for the Product Modelling domain, able to efficiently handle product variants. This contribution presents a ConceptBase formalization of PRONTO, as well as an extension of it that allows the inference of product structural knowledge and the specification of valid products.

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in Harvard Style

Vegetti M., Leone H. and P. Henning G. (2010). A THREE LEVEL ABSTRACTION HIERARCHY TO REPRESENT PRODUCT STRUCTURAL INFORMATION . In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8425-05-8, pages 299-308. DOI: 10.5220/0002907102990308


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis10,
author={Marcela Vegetti and Horacio Leone and Gabriela P. Henning},
title={A THREE LEVEL ABSTRACTION HIERARCHY TO REPRESENT PRODUCT STRUCTURAL INFORMATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2010},
pages={299-308},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002907102990308},
isbn={978-989-8425-05-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - A THREE LEVEL ABSTRACTION HIERARCHY TO REPRESENT PRODUCT STRUCTURAL INFORMATION
SN - 978-989-8425-05-8
AU - Vegetti M.
AU - Leone H.
AU - P. Henning G.
PY - 2010
SP - 299
EP - 308
DO - 10.5220/0002907102990308