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An important recent idea to facilitate knowledge sharing is to provide libraries of reusable components (models, ontologies) to end users. However, when libraries become large, finding the right library components is a knowledge demanding task in itself. Our suggestion therefore is that methods will be needed that help the user to gradually construct such knowledge. This paper describes a framework how to do this for reasoning in technical domains. We then show how an application ontology can be incrementally constructed with our framework, for the domain of heat exchangers.
This work has been supported in part by the Commission of the European Communities as Esprit-III projects P6521 olmeco (Open Library for Models of MEchatronic Components), and P8145 kactus (modelling Knowledge About Complex Technical systems for multiple USe). The partners in the olmeco project are psa Peugeot-Citroën (F), bim (B), Fagor (Sp), Ikerlan (Sp), Imagine (F), University of Twente (NL) and ecn (NL). The partners in the kactus project are: Labein (Sp), Lloyd's Register (UK), isl (UK), Statoil (N), Cap Programmator (S), University of Amsterdam (NL), University of Karlsruhe (D), Iberdrola (Sp), Delos (I), Fincantieri (I) and Sintef (N). This article expresses the opinions of the authors and not necessarily those of the consortia.
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Benjamin, J., Borst, P., Akkermans, H., Wielinga, B. (1996). Ontology construction for technical domains. In: Shadbolt, N., O'Hara, K., Schreiber, G. (eds) Advances in Knowledge Acquisition. EKAW 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1076. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61273-4_7
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