Global manufacturing with mass customization and ever shorter product life cycles have led to the requirement for rapidly reconfi gurable manufacturing systems. The authors target the topic of knowledge representation and reasoning machines and introduce the concept of domain ontologies. Domain ontologies are the formal representation of knowledge about manufacturing systems, industrial equipment, industrial processes, and products to be manufactured. This book presents a methodology for building domain ontologies, introduces tools for editing them, and discusses logic reasoners, which are used to process the ontologies autonomously.

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ISBN: 978193600-7011
Weight: 0.6lb