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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.
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Horváth, I., Bremer, A.P., Vergeest, J.S.M., van der Vegte, W., Kuczogi, G. (1999). Towards the inclusion of process related knowledge into very high level modeling entities. In: Kals, H., van Houten, F. (eds) Integration of Process Knowledge into Design Support Systems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1901-8_10
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