High Value Manufacturing – Bártolo et al. (Eds)
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Development of an ontology-based knowledge methodology in product
innovative collaborative conceptual design environment
Shu-Jen Liang
Department of Technology Application and Human Resource Development, National Taiwan Normal University,
Taipei City, Taiwan
ABSTRACT: An ontology-based knowledge methodology is generated in a heterogeneous and distributed
design collaboration in this research. It comprises a formal constraints-based approach for representing the
desired functions, a domain-independent approach for modeling functional knowledge of known criterion solu-
tions, and a heterogeneous-object-search-based approach for synthesizing