Towards a general ontology of configuration
Towards a general ontology of configuration
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10.1017/s0890060498124083
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1998-09
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通讯作者：
T. Soininen;J. Tiihonen;T. Männistö;R. Sulonen
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T. Soininen;J. Tiihonen;T. Männistö;R. Sulonen
为了实现配置知识的重用和共享，本文提出了一种通用的产品配置本体，作为向通用配置本体迈进的一步。所提出的本体由一组概念组成，用于表示关于配置的知识和对可能配置的限制。本体是基于一个合成的主要方法配置。早期的方法扩展了我们在可配置产品上的实践经验所产生的新概念。这些概念包括组件、属性、资源、端口、上下文、功能、约束以及它们之间的关系。这项工作的主要贡献是在产品结构的知识的详细概念化，并在扩展资源的概念与上下文限制的可用性和使用资源。此外，约束集表示的产品上的不同意见。本体进行了比较与以前的工作配置。它涵盖了所有主要的配置方法，即基于连接、基于结构、基于资源和基于功能的配置方法。简要分析了不同概念化所产生的概念之间的依赖关系。指出了本体论可以扩展的几种方式。
This article presents a generalized ontology of product configuration as a step towards a general ontology of configuration, which is needed to reuse and share configuration knowledge. The ontology presented consists of a set of concepts for representing the knowledge on a configuration and the restrictions on possible configurations. The ontology is based on a synthesis of the main approaches to configuration. Earlier approaches are extended with new concepts arising from our practical experience on configurable products. The concepts include components, attributes, resources, ports, contexts, functions, constraints, and relations between these. The main contributions of this work are in the detailed conceptualization of knowledge on product structures and in extending the resource concept with contexts for limiting the availability and use of resources. In addition, constraint sets representing different views on the product are introduced. The ontology is compared with the previous work on configuration. It covers all the principal approaches, that is, connection-based, structure-based, resource-based, and function-based approaches to configuration. The dependencies between the concepts arising from different conceptualizations are briefly analyzed. Several ways in which the ontology could be extended are pointed out.