• Journal of Ship and Ocean Technology
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.33-42
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• 2005

As the networks connect the world, enterprises tend to move manufacturing activities into virtual spaces. Since different software applications use different data terminology, it becomes a problem to interoperate, interchange, and manage electronic data among heterogeneous systems. It is said that approximately one billion dollar has been being spent yearly in USA for product data exchange and interoperability. As commercial CAD systems have brought in the concept of design feature for the sake of interoperability, terminologies of design features need to be harmonized. In order to define design feature terminology for integration, knowledge about feature definitions of different CAD systems should be considered. STEP standard have attempted to solve this problem, but it defines only syntactic data representation so that semantic data integration is not possible. This paper proposes a methodology for integrating modeling features of CAD systems. We utilize the ontology concept to build a data model of design features which can be a semantic standard of feature definitions of CAD systems. Using feature ontology, we implement an integrated virtual database and a simple system which searches and edits design features in a semantic way.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.53-67
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• 2008

At present, for reuse of similar domains between feature model and class model. researches of transformation at the model level and of transformation using ontology between two models are being made. but consistent transformation through metamodel is not made. And the factors of modeling transformation targets are not sufficient, and especially, automatic transformation algorithm and supporting tools are not provided so reuse of domains between models is not activated. This paper proposes a method of transformation from feature model to class model using ontology on the metamodel. For this, it re-establishes the metamodel of feature model, class model, and ontology, and it defines the properties of modelling factors for each metamodel. Based on the properties, it defines the profiles of transformation rules between feature mndel and ontology, and between ontology and class model, using set theory and propositional calculus. For automation of the transformation, it creates transformation algorithm and supporting tools. Using the proposed transformation rules and tools, real application is made through Electronic Approval System. Through this, it is possible to transform from the existing constructed feature model to the class model and to use it again for a different development method. Especially, it is Possible to remove ambiguity of semantic transformation using ontology, and automation of transformation maintains consistence between models.

• International Journal of CAD/CAM
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.39-47
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• 2005

Different CAx systems are being utilized throughout the product lifecycle due to the practical reasons in the supply chain and design processes. One of the major problems facing enterprises of today is how to share and exchange data among heterogeneous applications. Since different software applications use different terminologies, it is difficult to share and exchange the product data with internal and external partners. This paper presents a method to enhance the CAD model interoperability based on feature ontology. The feature ontology has been constructed based on the feature definition of modeling commands of CAD systems. A method for integration of semantic data has been proposed, implemented, and tested with two commercial CAD systems.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.167-174
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• 2004

As the networks connect the world, enterprises tend to move manufacturing activities into virtual spaces. Since different applications use different data terminology, it becomes a problem to interoperate, interchange, and manage electronic data among different systems. According to RTI, approximately one billion dollar has been being spent yearly for product data exchange and interoperability. As commercial CAD systems have brought in the concept of design feature for the sake of interoperability, terminologies of design feature need to be harmonized. In order to define design feature terminology for integration, knowledge about feature definitions of different CAD systems should be considered. STEP (Standard for the Exchange of Product model data) have attempted to solve this problem, but it defines only syntactic data representation so that semantic data integration is unattainable. In this paper, we utilize the ontology concept to build a data model of design feature which can be a semantic standard of feature definitions of CAD systems. Using feature ontology, we implement an integrated virtual database and a simple system which searches and edits design features in a semantic way. This paper proposes a methodology for integrating modeling features of CAD systems.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.164-164
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• 2004

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.295-296
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• 2010

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.10b
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• pp.50-54
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• 2007

소프트웨어 개발을 위한 모델링 방법 중 대표적인 것으로 UML을 이용한 방법이 있으며, 제품계열공학에서 소프트웨어의 재사용을 위한 모델링 방법으로 feature 모델링에 관한 연구가 진행 되고 있다. feature 모델링 방법은 잘 정의된 개발 기법을 제공하여 활용되고 있으나 다소 범용 적이지 않다. 또한 그 구조물이 UML과 상이하여 UML사용자가 feature 모델을 재사용하는 데는 어려움을 가지고 있고, feature 모델에서 class모델로의 변환을 제시한 기존연구는 도메인 전문가에 의해 경험적으로 모델링을 하기 때문에 모호성과 이해의 오류, 그리고 잘못된 해석 등의 문제가 발생 된다. 그리고, feature 모델과 class모델의 모든 요소를 매핑하여 변환하지 않는다는 점에서 완전하지 못하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 Ontology를 이용하여 의미 기반의 명확한 명세를 통한 feature모델의 class 모델로의 변환기법을 제시하고, 이를 위해 feature 모델과 class 모델의 구조물의 요소를 정의하고 이를 기반으로 feature 모델과 OWL, 그리고 class 모델 속성간의 매핑 규칙을 제시하고, 본 논문에서 제시한 변환 프로세스를 이용하여 사례연구를 하였다.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.143-152
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• 2016

We can organize, manage, search, and process the documents efficiently by a document clustering. In general, the documents are clustered in a high dimensional feature space because the documents consist of many terms. In this paper, we propose a new method to cluster the documents efficiently in a low dimensional feature space by finding the core concepts from a domain ontology corresponding to the particular area documents. The experiment shows that our clustering method has a good performance.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.107-117
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• 2010

The feature models representing the common and variable concepts among the software products and the feature configurations generated by selecting the features to be included in the target product are the essential components in the software product lines methodology. Although the researches on the formal semantics and reasoning of the feature models and feature configurations are in progress, the researches on feature model ontologies and feature configuration validation using the semantic web technologies are yet insufficient. This paper defines the formal semantics of the feature models and proposes a feature configuration validation technique based on ontology and semantic web technologies. OWL(Web Ontology Language), a semantic web standard language, is used to represent the knowledge in the feature models and the feature configurations. SWRL(Semantic Web Rule Language), a semantic web rule languages, is used to define the rules to validate the feature configurations. The approach in this paper provides the formal semantic of the feature models, automates the validation of feature configurations, and enables the application of various semantic web technologies, such as SQWRL.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.196-211
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• 2007

In the Product Line Engineering (PLE), current studies about an analysis of the feature have uncertain and ad-hoc criteria of analysis based on developer’s intuition or domain expert’s heuristic approach and difficulty to extract explicit features from a product in a product line because the stakeholders lack comprehensive understanding of the features in feature modeling. Therefore, this paper proposes a model of the analyzing commonality and variability of the feature based on the Ontology. The proposed model in this paper suggests two approaches in order to solve the problems mentioned above: First, the model explicitly expresses the feature by making an individual feature attribute list based on the meta feature modeling to understand common feature. Second, the model projects an analysis model of commonality and variability using the semantic similarity between features based on the Ontology to the stakeholders. The main contribution of this paper is to improve the reusability of distinguished features on developing products of same line henceforth.