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Industrial Application of Ontologies

Authors:
Dirk Malzahn

Keywords: ontology; mapping; analysis features; service catalogues; article and material management

Abstract:
The industrial application of ontologies is usually connected to a real life problem. Over the last 2 years we used ontologies to solve problems in the areas of retail article management, contract and Request for proposal (RFP) analysis, standard service catalogues and materials management. All these problems were either based on insufficient knowledge of the data and information by the data owner itself, or by semantic and constraints challenges, which could not be resolved due to the complexity and size of the data. In this paper, we will explain how ontologies have been set up and which algorithms have been used to resolve these problems. The combination of ontologies with the analysis of dependencies, text structures, outliers, patterns and similarities lead to an analysis approach and - in the very end - a tool, which on one hand is simple enough to be understood by an industrial expert and on the other hand mature enough to provide the analysis features described above. This paper is more field report than a research paper, but should give an impression that there are areas of application beside the academic world the urgently require ontology based knowledge management.

Pages: 62 to 67

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: February 23, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4375

ISBN: 978-1-61208-121-2

Location: Gosier, Guadeloupe, France

Dates: from February 23, 2011 to February 28, 2011