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Functionality represents a blueprint of a product and plays a crucial role in problem-solving such as design. This article discusses the model representation from the angle of functional ontology by function deployment. We construct a framework of functional ontology which decomposes the function and contains a library of vocabulary to comprehensively represent the conceptual design model. The ontology enables the automatic identification system to search in the functional space. Furthermore, the functional ontology can form a systematic representation for the model so that it can be reused in the conceptual design and can be applied in the domain of knowledge fusion in our further work.
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Foundation item: the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 50575142, 50775140 and 60304015), the National High Technology Research and Development Program (863) of China (No. 2008AA04Z113), the National Basic Research Program (973) of China (No. 2006CB705400), the Shanghai Committee of Science and Technology (Nos. 08JC1412000, 09DZ1121400 and 07XD14016) and the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (No. 200802480036)
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Li, S., Hu, J., Peng, Yh. et al. Functional ontology for conceptual design oriented model representation and reuse. J. Shanghai Jiaotong Univ. (Sci.) 14, 542–548 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12204-009-0542-0
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