• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.110-117
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• 2012

A product family design has received much attention over the last several decades, since a product family-based development shortens lead-times and reduces cost, as well as increases efficiency and effectiveness of the product realization process. It is challenging work, however, to define the product family design in the heterogeneous product development environments, due to myriads of products related information described in different ways across products in any companies. In this paper, we provided a way of defining product family design framework using formal concept analysis and ontology language. Based on this, the specific product family can be derived by ontological reasoning, and the new product concept can be also expanded in the framework. The proposed framework is formalized using OWL (Web Ontology Language) and implemented in $Prot{\acute{e}}g{\acute{e}}$. Actual product family design algorithm is carried out using FaCT++ engine, a plug-in to $Prot{\acute{e}}g{\acute{e}}$, and the benefits of the proposed method are also demonstrated through a case study.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2010

Increasing product variety based on product family and product platform provides a company with a competitive advantage over its competitors. As products become more complex, short-life cycled and customized, the design efforts require more knowledge-intensive, collaborative and coordinating efforts for information sharing. By sharing knowledge, information, component and process across different families of products, the product realization process will be more efficient, cost-effective and quick-responsive. Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is used for analyzing data and forming semantic structures that are formal abstractions of concepts of human thoughts. A Web Ontology Language (OWL) is designed for applications that need to process the content of information instead of simply presenting information to humans. OWL also captures the evolution of different components of the product family. The purpose of this paper is to develop product variety modeling to increase the usefulness of common platform. In constructing and analyzing product ontology, FCA is adopted for conceptual knowledge processing. For the selected product family, product variety Ontology is constructed and implemented using prot$\'{e}$g$\'{e}$-2000.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.323-340
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• 2013

As the importance of collaboration becomes critical in today's open and complex business environment network, the issues and solutions on compatibility and reusability between different kinds of applications are being increasingly important as well in systems analysis and design. And therefore, service-centered SOA is receiving attention in such business environment as a strategic approach that makes possible for prompt action according to the needs of users and business process. Various implementation methodologies have been proposed for SOA, however, in practical aspects most of them have some problems since they fail to propose specific policies in definition and identification of services for the exact user requirements and business situations. To solve or alleviate those problems, this paper suggests a new service identification model based on hierarchical ontology, where three different ontologies such as business ontology, context ontology and service ontology are proposed to define the relationship and design the link between user requirements, business process, applications and services. Through a suggested methodology in this paper, it would be possible to provide proactive services that meets a variety of business environments and demands of user. Also, since the information can be modified adaptively and dynamically by hierarchical ontology, this study is expected to play a positive role in increasing the flexibility of systems and business environments.

• Genomics & Informatics
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.122-130
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• 2009

A systems biology approach for the identification of perturbed molecular functions is required to understand the complex progressive disease such as breast cancer. In this study, we analyze the microarray data with Gene Ontology terms of molecular functions to select perturbed molecular functional modules in breast cancer tissues based on the definition of Gene ontology Functional Code. The Gene Ontology is three structured vocabularies describing genes and its products in terms of their associated biological processes, cellular components and molecular functions. The Gene Ontology is hierarchically classified as a directed acyclic graph. However, it is difficult to visualize Gene Ontology as a directed tree since a Gene Ontology term may have more than one parent by providing multiple paths from the root. Therefore, we applied the definition of Gene Ontology codes by defining one or more GO code(s) to each GO term to visualize the hierarchical classification of GO terms as a network. The selected molecular functions could be considered as perturbed molecular functional modules that putatively contributes to the progression of disease. We evaluated the method by analyzing microarray dataset of breast cancer tissues; i.e., normal and invasive breast cancer tissues. Based on the integration approach, we selected several interesting perturbed molecular functions that are implicated in the progression of breast cancers. Moreover, these selected molecular functions include several known breast cancer-related genes. It is concluded from this study that the present strategy is capable of selecting perturbed molecular functions that putatively play roles in the progression of diseases and provides an improved interpretability of GO terms based on the definition of Gene Ontology codes.

• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.67-81
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• 2023

This paper presents a dynamic development of an ontology-based statistical information system supporting the collection, storage, processing, analysis, and the presentation of statistical knowledge at the national scale. To accomplish this, we propose a data mining technique to dynamically collect data relating to citizens from publicly available data sources; the collected data will then be structured, classified, categorized, and integrated into an ontology. Moreover, an intelligent platform is proposed in order to generate quantitative and qualitative statistical information based on the knowledge stored in the ontology. The main aims of our proposed system are to digitize administrative tasks and to provide reliable statistical information to governmental, economic, and social actors. The authorities will use the ontology-based statistical information system for strategic decision-making as it easily collects, produces, analyzes, and provides both quantitative and qualitative knowledge that will help to improve the administration and management of national political, social, and economic life.

• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.88-96
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• 2006

This paper introduces an approach to ontology-based framework for knowledge management in a product development domain. The participants in a product life cycle want to share the product knowledge without any heterogeneity. However, previous knowledge management systems do not have any conceptual specifications of their knowledge. We suggest the three levels of knowledge framework. First level is an axiom, which specifies the semantics of concepts and relations. Second level is a product development knowledge map. It defines the common domain knowledge which domain experts agree with. Third level is a specialized knowledge for domain, which includes three knowledge types; expert knowledge, engineering function and data-analysis-based knowledge. We propose an ontology-based knowledge framework based on the three levels of knowledge. The framework has a uniform representation; first order logic to increase integrity of the framework. We implement the framework using prolog and test example queries to show the effectiveness of the framework.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.390-394
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• 2009

시맨틱 웹 기반의 소셜 네트워크는 다양한 분야에서 높은 활용성을 가진다. 본 논문에서는 FOAF 기반 소셜 네트워크에 대하여 다양한 분석을 수행하고, 이를 바탕으로 네트워크 내의 전문가를 추천하는 시스템을 제안한다. 분석 시스템은 SparQL, RDFS 추론, 그리고 시각화 도구를 이용하여 온톨로지 기반 소셜 네트워크에 대한 효과적인 활용 방안을 제시한다. 그리고 이러한 분석 시스템을 실제 소셜 네트워크에 적용시켜 Centrality, Small world, Scale free 특성 등의 다양한 분석을 수행하고, 특정 분야에 대한 전문가를 분석하는 방법을 제시한다. 이러한 활용방법은 마케팅, 조직 관리, 지식 경영 시스템 등 다양한 분야에서 이용될 것으로 기대한다.

• 정보처리학회논문지D
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• 제15D권4호
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• pp.557-568
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• 2008

온톨로지는 시멘틱 웹의 핵심요소로서, 도메인의 공유지식을 개념화하여 정형적으로 표현한 것이다. 잘 정의된 온톨로지를 사용함으로써 상호운용성을 기반으로 하는 시멘틱 웹 분야의 정보시스템 품질을 향상시킬 수 있다. 그러나, 실제로는 오류를 포함하지 않는 고품질의 온톨로지를 개발하는 것은 수월하지 않다. 따라서, 온톨로지 설계기법과 더불어서, 온톨로지에 내재된 에러를 검출하는 기능을 지원하는 다양한 분석도구/기법들은 온톨로지 개발자들에게 많은 도움이 될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는, 형식개념분석기법을 기반으로 온톨로지의 핵심요소들을 분석하는 기법을 제안하고, 온톨로지에 내재되어 있는 오류를 검출하기 위한 지원도구를 개발하였다. 본 연구결과는, 기존의 온톨로지를 수정보완할 경우의 지침으로서 뿐만아니라, 고품질의 온톨로지를 개발할 수 있는 유용한 도구로서 이용될 수 있다.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.193-203
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• 2010

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a new trend for the design of application architecture to enhance the degree of share and reuse with the concept of service. It comes from the current situation where the business environments are changing rapidly and therefore competitions are getting bitter. To cope with such business challenges, business (and/or applications) architecture needs considerably flexibility and reusability, and that's why SOA is accepted as one of the most effective framework for the business applications in these days. In this paper we propose an analysis and design methodology for the applications of SOA. To implement the proposed methodology, the service ontology needs to be defined first, and the tasks such as service profiling, workflow design and service orchestration need to be followed. To validate the expected effects on flexibility and reusability, the proposed methodology was compared with CBD (Component Based Development).

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.428-437
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• 2005

온톨로지는 주어진 응용 도메인의 특성을 나타내는 관련 개념들의 집합과 정의, 그리고 그들간의 관계로 이루어진다. 본 논문에서는 온톨로지를 구축하고 갱신할 때의 시간과 비용을 줄이기 위하여 텍스트의 분석결과를 이용한 도메인 온톨로지의 반자동 구축방안을 제안한다. 이를 위하여 관련 문서들 내에 출현한 전문용어들의 처리방안을 제시하고, 추출한 개념들과 그들간의 관계를 온톨로지의 구축에 활용한다. 실험 도메인은 약품분야로 정하였으며, 구축한 온톨로지는 문서의 검색에 활용하였다. 온톨로지 내의 계층관계들이 문서검색에 효용이 있음을 보이기 위하여 일반적인 키워드기반 문서검색과 온톨로지 내의 관련 정보들을 연관피드백에 이용한 온톨로지기반 문서검색을 비교한 결과, 후자의 경우 정확률이 $4.97\%$, 재현율이 $0.78\%$ 향상됨을 알 수 있었다.