Ontology building and maintenance in collaborative virtual environments

摘要

The role of ontologies in the enterprise world is constantly increasing, and they are proving even morernnecessary in distributed production realities, like in extended logistics, industrial districts, or virtual enterprises.rnIn such realities, a common conceptual basis is necessary to compensate the fragmentation inherentrnin the underlying industrial models. This paper presents an end-to-end framework based on anrnopen, collaborative approach for developing and maintaining business domain ontologies. The frameworkrnhas been achieved within the European Project BIVEE and has been experimented in two industrialrnrealities: the high-tech sector of robotics and the more traditional one of furniture.