Ontology-based design meta-intent representation

At present, traditional representation schemas of product design are short of expressions of explaining the representation of design intent so that understanding to product design intent and design reuse is affected. In this paper, a product design meta-intent concept is presented, and design intent objects, design meta-intents are analyze and summarized. An ontology-based framework to express design meta-intent is proposed. The framework is composed of three-level, on top-level ontology of design intent objects and design meat-intent properties are set up within design domain, in middle-level design meta-intent RDF statements are formed based on ontology instances, bottom-level is used to explain various structural and non-structural knowledge about design meat-intent. The proposed representation schema is clear in structure and shared semantics with formal description, adapted to collaborative design and design reuse.