Information Integration for Collaborative Product Development with an Ontology-Based Approach

Author

Xinyi, Bu ; Zhao Na

Author_Institution

Instn. of Manage. Decision & Innovation, Hangzhou Dianzi Univ., Hangzhou, China

fYear

2009

fDate

16-17 May 2009

Firstpage

510

Lastpage

514

Abstract

Due to the ever-increasing global competition and great progress in information technologies, enterprises start to perform collaborative product development. To achieve collaborative product development, information sharing is a precondition. Therefore, how to best integrate such heterogeneous information distributed among various cooperating enterprises has become an extremely important subjects associated with collaborative product development. This study presents a hybrid ontology based approach that integrates information distributed among different collaborative enterprises supporting interoperability. This study: 1) designed an integration process for information of collaborative development, 2) developed techniques associated with the integration of heterogeneous information, and 3) gave a case to implement this model of integration.

Keywords

electronic commerce; ontologies (artificial intelligence); open systems; product development; collaborative enterprises; collaborative product development; heterogeneous information integration; hybrid ontology-based approach; information sharing; Assembly; Collaborative work; Design engineering; Electronic commerce; Humans; Information technology; International collaboration; Ontologies; Process design; Product development; collaborative product process; information integration; ontology mapping; ontology-based;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Engineering and Electronic Commerce, 2009. IEEC '09. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Ternopil

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3686-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEEC.2009.113

Filename

5175170