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Ontological Commitment for Participative Simulation

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This paper analyses the role of ontological commitment in structuring the requirements for the PSIM Environment. This environment aims to support (i) the sharing and the exchange of knowledge between the different actors involved in the design or redesign of a manufacturing enterprise; and (ii) the exchange of information between tools supporting enterprise analysis according to different perspectives (logistic, technologic and human). The techniques for piecemeal ontological commitment are related to two contributions from research on enterprise reference architectures: (i) the dimension of genericity of the ENV 40003 reference architecture and (ii) the relationships between lifecycles of enterprise entities as defined in GERAM. Two kinds of applications illustrate the ontological commitments: support for the interoperation and communication between applications; and the provision of task-specific interfaces to users working in an enterprise.

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  1. Faculty of Technology Management, Eindhoven University of Technology, POBox 513, 5600, MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Jan Goossenaerts & Christine Pelletier

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  1. Graduate school of environment and information sciences, Yokohama National University, 79-7, Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, yokohama, 240-8501, Japan

    Hiroshi Arisawa

  2. Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Yoshida, Sakyo, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan

    Yahiko Kambayashi

  3. SICE Computer Networking, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 5100 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO, 64110, USA

    Vijay Kumar

  4. University of Klagenfurt, Universitätsstraße 65-67, 9020, Klagenfurt, Austria

    Heinrich C. Mayr

  5. VP Industry Services DAMA International, PO Box 5786, Bellevue, WA, 98006-5786, USA

    Ingrid Hunt

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Goossenaerts, J., Pelletier, C. (2002). Ontological Commitment for Participative Simulation. In: Arisawa, H., Kambayashi, Y., Kumar, V., Mayr, H.C., Hunt, I. (eds) Conceptual Modeling for New Information Systems Technologies. ER 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2465. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46140-X_11

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