TONE Ontology Model and Collaborative Product Development
Ji Wang · Mechanical Science and Technology · 2002
Collaborative product development(CPD) is based on the co operation and collaboration of multi disciplinary people who need to communicate and exchange information, and each enterprise's personnel speaks his own languages. So, the communication as well as sharing and exchange of knowledge are the basis and corner stones of CPD, and they are also the main cause of some conflict problem. Ontology has solved some of the above problems through unifying the domain vocabulary and it's meaning. But contemporary ontology models have some faults, such as unclear essence and dependent on certain language, these are obstacles to multi ontology's sharing and exchange. We present a TONE ontology model, through differentiating concept's essence and extension sternly, and establishing the tree of concept essence and operator for constructing extension, make the unifying of terms, which is the basis of ontology possible on the level of semantics, and it also provide a method for solving conflict problem of CPD.