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Exploiting unified modelling language (UML) as a preliminary design tool for Common Logic-based ontologies in manufacturing

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posted on 2016-04-22, 11:01 authored by Claire PalmerClaire Palmer, Nitishal Chungoora, Robert I.M. Young, A. George Gunendran, Zahid Usman, Keith Case, Jennifer HardingJennifer Harding
This paper proposes a particular method which utilises the unified modelling language (UML) as a design visualisation tool for modelling ontologies based on the Common Logic knowledge representation language. The use of this method will enable Common Logic ontological concepts to be more readily accessible to general engineers and provide a valuable ontology design aid. The method proposed is explored using the knowledge frame language (KFL) which provides constructs to facilitate ontology building and is built on Common Logic. The major constructs of KFL are briefly defined and a description of how each construct may be represented in UML is given. Examples are presented showing how the constructs may be modelled in UML and a Common Logic-based implementation founded on a UML design is illustrated and discussed. The manufacturing domain is utilised as an experimental basis for demonstrating the proposed method.

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We wish to thank the EPSRC, who have funded the work behind this paper through two related digital manufacturing projects, project 253 and project 237, of the Loughborough University Innovative Manufacturing and Construction Research Centre.

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School

  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Published in

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING

Volume

26

Issue

3

Pages

267 - 283 (17)

Citation

PALMER, C. ... et al., 2013. Exploiting unified modelling language (UML) as a preliminary design tool for Common Logic-based ontologies in manufacturing. International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 26 (3), pp.267-283.

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© Taylor & Francis

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2013

Notes

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing on 08/06/2012, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0951192X.2012.688142.

ISSN

0951-192X

eISSN

1362-3052

Language

  • en

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