Ontology-based similarity for product information retrieval |
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Authors: | Suriati Akmal Li-Hsing Shih Rafael Batres |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, Hibarigaoka 1-1, Tempaku-cho, Toyohashi 441-8580 Japan;2. Department of Resources Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, No. 1, University Road, Tainan 701, Taiwan, ROC |
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Abstract: | Product development of today is becoming increasingly knowledge intensive. Specifically, design teams face considerable challenges in making effective use of increasing amounts of information. In order to support product information retrieval and reuse, one approach is to use case-based reasoning (CBR) in which problems are solved “by using or adapting solutions to old problems.” In CBR, a case includes both a representation of the problem and a solution to that problem. Case-based reasoning uses similarity measures to identify cases which are more relevant to the problem to be solved. However, most non-numeric similarity measures are based on syntactic grounds, which often fail to produce good matches when confronted with the meaning associated to the words they compare. To overcome this limitation, ontologies can be used to produce similarity measures that are based on semantics. This paper presents an ontology-based approach that can determine the similarity between two classes using feature-based similarity measures that replace features with attributes. The proposed approach is evaluated against other existing similarities. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed approach is illustrated with a case study on product–service–system design problems. |
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Keywords: | Semantic similarity Ontology Product information retrieval Formal concept analysis |
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