A semantic product modeling framework and language for behavior evaluation
Jae Hyun Lee, Steven J. Fenves, Conrad E. Bock, Hyo-Won Suh, Sudarsan Rachuri, Xenia Fiorentini, Ram Duvvuru Sriram · 2009
Supporting different stakeholder viewpoints across the product's entire lifecycle requires semantic richness for representing product related information.This paper proposes a multi-layered product modeling framework that enables stakeholders to define their product-specific models and relate them to physical or simulated instances.The framework is defined within the Model-driven Architecture and adapted to the multi-layer approach of the architecture.The data layer represents real world products, the model layer includes models of those products, and the meta-model layer (M2) defines the product modeling language.The semantic-based product modeling language described in this paper is specialized from a web ontology language enabling product designers to express the semantics of their product models explicitly and logically in an engineering-friendly way.The interactions between these three layers are described to illustrate how each layer in the framework is used in a product engineering context.A product example is provided for further understanding of the framework.