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Aiming at representing and reasoning about multidisciplinary design knowledge explicitly and exchanging it in different design environments, this paper proposes an ontology-based collaborative reasoning strategy for multidisciplinary design in the Semantic Grid. An ontology-based modeling framework is used as the basis, which adopts Web Ontology Language (OWL) to build a domain-specific multidisciplinary design repository, and allows the design agents to visit ontology repository effectively through ontology-based services. On the top of modeling framework we propose a multi-agent collaborative reasoning environment, which utilizes OWL as the content language of FIPA ACL, and supports the ontology-based collaborative reasoning for multidisciplinary design between multiple design agents. This important enhancement facilitates the implementation of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) in multidisciplinary design for Semantic Grid applications.
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Zhang, L., Zhang, W., Wang, Q., Wang, Y. (2007). An Ontology-Based Collaborative Reasoning Strategy for Multidisciplinary Design in the Semantic Grid. In: Shen, W., Luo, J., Lin, Z., Barthès, JP.A., Hao, Q. (eds) Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design III. CSCWD 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4402. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72863-4_43
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