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Research

Our research focuses on four main areas:

• Knowledge Management in Engineering Design
• Design Innovation
• Decision Making
• Interoperability in Distributed Design
  
  

Current Research Projects

• A Web-Based Environment for Documentation and Sharing of Engineering Design Knowledge
• Distributed Multidisciplinary Decision Support
• FIDOE: Framework fo Intelligent Design Ontologies in Engineering

Completed Research Projects

• Integration of OWL ontology with Vistagy’s Encapta Application
• Bi-Directional Integration of OWL ontology with Pro/ENGINEER Geometry Using Encapta Application
• Integration of OWL Ontology with iSIGHT-FD
• Intelligent EAM Model Selector Wrapped In FIPER
• Demonstrated FIPER Workflow Involving OWL Knowledge, Intelligent EAM Model Selector, ANSYS Execution, and Automatic Tech Report Generator

Background

Ontologies



Why Ontologies?

• Maximize efficiency by providing control to domain experts
• Provide the required flexibility to adjust to changing scenarios
• Allows for established, ad hoc, local, and remote clients and process to work seamlessly
• Provides a persistent searchable information store

The Semantic Web and OWL
OWL (Ontology Web Language)
2004 W3C Recommendation for Semantic Web Designed for applications that need to process the content of information instead of just presenting information to humans.

• Information is represented within a knowledge structure
• Built in methods for information linking
• Complete knowledge of information schema NOT required
• Based upon XML and RDF
• Adds more vocabulary for describing properties and classes:
  • relations between classes (e.g. disjointness)
    
  • cardinality (e.g. "exactly one")
    
  • equality, richer typing of properties
    
  • characteristics of properties (e.g. symmetry)
    
  • enumerated classes
    
    
    
    
    

SWRL: The Semantic Web Rule Language