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Ontology in Engineering Applications

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The goal of this position paper is to introduce the research topics in engineering and the motivations for the application of semantic technologies. A group called Ontology Based Engineering – OBE has been created by the engineering community to share experiences in this field and the various challenges faced in using ontologies and related tools. The OBE groups aims at creating a dialog with the ontology specialists by sharing the research challenges and problems in ontology application.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    http://www.step.org.

  2. 2.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-ref/.

  3. 3.

    http://www.vistra-project.eu/.

  4. 4.

    http://www.e-save.eu/.

  5. 5.

    http://www.tanet.eu/projects/current-projects/flexinet/.

  6. 6.

    http://www.linkeddesign.eu/.

  7. 7.

    http://www.vff-project.eu/.

  8. 8.

    http://www.buildingsmart-tech.org/.

  9. 9.

    http://www.flexinet-fof.eu/.

  10. 10.

    http://www.highfleet.com/.

  11. 11.

    http://www.incunabulum.de/projects/it/owl2java/.

  12. 12.

    http://protegewiki.stanford.edu/wiki/Protege-OWL_Code_Generator.

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Acknowledgements

Part of the work conducted by the OBE group is supported by The European Commission under FP7 Grants. Acknowledgments go to the OBE members for the collaborative efforts and support: Dimitris Kiritsis and Ana Milicic (EPFL); Marco Sacco and Walter Terkaj (ITIA-CNR); Bob Young, Claire Palmer and Esmond Urwin (Loughborough University); Craig Chapman and Pathmeswaran Raju (Birmingham University); Virginie Fortineau (Arts et Métiers Paris Tech); Hervé Panetto (University of Lorraine); Maximilian Zocholl (TU Darmstadt); Matthias Loskyll (DFKI); Elisa Negri and Marco Garetti (Polimi); Johannes Lützenberger (BIBA).

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    Soumaya El Kadiri & Dimitris Kiritsis

  2. National Research Council, Institute of Industrial Technologies and Automation ITIA, Milan, Italy

    Walter Terkaj

  3. Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK

    Esmond Neil Urwin, Claire Palmer & Robert Young

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El Kadiri, S., Terkaj, W., Urwin, E.N., Palmer, C., Kiritsis, D., Young, R. (2015). Ontology in Engineering Applications. In: Cuel, R., Young, R. (eds) Formal Ontologies Meet Industry. FOMI 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 225. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21545-7_11

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