TY - GEN
T1 - A meta-model for product configuration ontologies
AU - Abbasi, Ebrahim Khalil
AU - Leclercq, Tony
AU - Heymans, Patrick
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is partly funded by the EOS VeriLearn project (FNRS Grant O05518F-RG03).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 ACM.
PY - 2022/9/12
Y1 - 2022/9/12
N2 - Conceptual modelling of product configuration is an essential step towards improving reuse and configuration knowledge sharing, systems interoperability, and people communication. Among several approaches proposed, ontology-based approaches are known to provide better support for the conceptualization of product configuration knowledge in terms of precision and expressiveness of reasoning and representation. This paper studies product configuration ontologies and presents a meta-model of concepts and their relationships that are used in those ontologies. The proposed meta-model consists of a generalisation hierarchy of configuration types, the compositional structure of a configurable product, the generalisation hierarchy of a component, and constraint types. The meta-model has been designed with the aim of first understanding the current state of product configuration ontologies and then extending it for integrating new concepts.
AB - Conceptual modelling of product configuration is an essential step towards improving reuse and configuration knowledge sharing, systems interoperability, and people communication. Among several approaches proposed, ontology-based approaches are known to provide better support for the conceptualization of product configuration knowledge in terms of precision and expressiveness of reasoning and representation. This paper studies product configuration ontologies and presents a meta-model of concepts and their relationships that are used in those ontologies. The proposed meta-model consists of a generalisation hierarchy of configuration types, the compositional structure of a configurable product, the generalisation hierarchy of a component, and constraint types. The meta-model has been designed with the aim of first understanding the current state of product configuration ontologies and then extending it for integrating new concepts.
KW - knowledge representation
KW - ontology
KW - product configuration
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85139098231&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3503229.3547044
DO - 10.1145/3503229.3547044
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85139098231
T3 - 26th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, SPLC 2022 - Proceedings
SP - 166
EP - 173
BT - 26th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, SPLC 2022 - Proceedings
A2 - Felfernig, Alexander
A2 - Fuentes, Lidia
A2 - Cleland-Huang, Jane
A2 - Assuncao, Wesley K.G.
A2 - Assuncao, Wesley K.G.
A2 - Quinton, Clement
A2 - Guo, Jianmei
A2 - Schmid, Klaus
A2 - Huchard, Marianne
A2 - Ayala, Inmaculada
A2 - Rojas, Jose Miguel
A2 - Le, Viet-Man
A2 - Horcas, Jose Miguel
PB - ACM Press
T2 - 26th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, ASPLC 2022
Y2 - 12 September 2022 through 16 September 2022
ER -