Towards the inclusion of process related knowledge into very high level modeling entities

  • Imre Horváth
  • Aad P. Bremer
  • Joris S. M. Vergeest
  • Wilfred van der Vegte
  • György Kuczogi
Conference paper

Abstract

This paper summarizes the results of our research in a comprehensive methodology for handling design concepts. The main objectives are: (i) to understand the semantics of design concepts, (ii) to formalize the content and connections of design concepts, (iii) to provide a unified representation for the object-aspect and the process-aspect. Our approach relies on the ontology theory. First, an overview on the fundamentals and advantages of the ontological foundation is given. Design concepts are formalized based on the entity-situation-phenomenon scheme. A situation is decomposed into views which make corresponding object-oriented and process-oriented chunks of knowledge explicit. Details of structural, morphological and functional specifications of a design ontology are also presented.

Keywords

design concept design ontology associative concept network knowledge-intensive system object-process integration. 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Imre Horváth
    • 1
  • Aad P. Bremer
    • 1
  • Joris S. M. Vergeest
    • 1
  • Wilfred van der Vegte
    • 1
  • György Kuczogi
    • 1
  1. 1.Faculty of Design, Engineering and ProductionDelft University of TechnologyDelftThe Netherlands

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