Authors:
Peter Rosina
1
and
Bernhard Bauer
2
Affiliations:
1
University of Augsburg, Germany
;
2
Software Methodologies for Distributed Systems, Institute of Computer Science, University of Augsburg, Germany
Keyword(s):
Methods, modeling, ontologies, semantic web, enterprise architecture.
Abstract:
Due to today’s product complexity and variety and a shortening of development cycles, for instance, in the
automotive domain, a conventional knowledge representation and management of the various design methods
is not reasonable anymore. By acquiring the relevant domain and business knowledge from IT applications,
documents and experts and creating ontologies, business rules and queries thereof, domain experts can manage
this knowledge independently and thus react faster to the ever-changing development process.
Using SemanticWeb technologies, we created a methods ontology that enables domain experts to analyze and
compare method meta knowledge, e.g., about physical and virtual CAx methods. Furthermore, this particular
domain and business knowledge features interdependencies with the remaining enterprise knowledge, including
business processes, organizational aspects and the IT architecture. Therefore, we show concepts for the
integration of this method meta knowledge into an enterpr
ise architecture.
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