• 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.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.1-19
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• 2005

Ontology-based approaches for automated information integration are being widely investigated. The existing approaches explicitly represent the semantics of information sources in ontologies and let the computer system, through aligning or merging the source ontologies, provide a global view of information sources. The problem of aligning or merging different ontologies is a well known problem, and the inter-ontology mappings play an essential role in information integration. To enable simple and well-founded mappings , the ontologies of information sources should be modeled with the same world view and with the same manner of representation. This paper introduces an ontology modeling framework for component libraries, which is developed based on the Guarino's theory of upper ontology . This paper discusses the results of modeling ontologies of mold and die component libraries based on the framework. A Web-based implementation automatically merges the source ontologies.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.124-127
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• 2005

The increased use of ontologies fur knowledge sharing emerges in many applications where knowledge applicability plays a critical role. The trend demands the need for an infrastructure that allows management tools to use ontology more easily such as ontology editors, storing, integration and inference engines towards comprehensive ontology-based solutions. We call such an infrastructure as ontology repository. This paper designed ontology repository for scalable ontology data

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.11 no.1 s.30
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• pp.42-53
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• 2006

This paper describes how to compose multimedia ontology for integrating/searching different types of multimedia databases. For this, we build integrated ontology based on MPEG-7 Multimedia Description Schemes (MDS), which is a representative standard for specifying multimedia contents, and the concept of TV-Anytime and re-express it using Web Ontology Language (OWL). In addition, we explain interoperability of the developed integrated ontology with other types of ontology with different concepts. Lastly, this paper describes the method of semantic search and retrieval using the integrated multimedia ontology.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.02a
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• pp.884-892
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• 2006

This paper describes a framework for multimodal object manipulation in virtual environments. The gist of the proposed framework is the semantic integration of multimodal input using spatial ontology and user context to integrate the interpretation results from the inputs into a single one. The spatial ontology, describing the spatial relationships between objects, is used together with the current user context to solve ambiguities coming from the user's commands. These commands are used to reposition the objects in the virtual environments. We discuss how the spatial ontology is defined and used to assist the user to perform object placements in the virtual environment as it will be in the real world.

• Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.221-225
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• 2005

언제 어디서나 자유롭게 인터넷을 사용할 수 있는 다가오는 유비쿼터스 환경에서 원하는 정보를 빠르고 정확하게 찾고자 하는 사용자들의 요구는 중요한 이슈가 되었다. 대량의 정보에 대한 정확하고 의미있는 검색의 해결책으로 제시된 한 분야가 바로 시맨틱 웹이다. 우리는 본 논문에서 시맨틱 웹의 핵심 기술인 차세대 데이터베이스라 불리는 온톨로지를 통합하고 이를 확장해 나아가는 방법에 대해 제안한다. 본 논문에서 온톨로지 통합에 사용되는 기법은 맵핑을 이용한 온톨로지 병합(merging) 기법이고, 이를 바탕으로 하는 상위 온톨로지 확장은 통합된 온톨로지를 메타레벨과 언어레벨로 나누는 작업을 통해 이루어진다. 제안된 방법은 중복되는 온톨로지들을 최소화하여 재사용성을 높이는데 기여한다. 또한 온톨로지들 사이의 개념들 간의 관계를 효율적으로 만들고, 시맨틱 웹뿐만 아니라 나아가 유비쿼터스 웹 환경에서 사용자들이 원하는 정보의 공유를 용이하게 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.181-186
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• 2005

In collaborative environment, it is necessary that the participants in collaboration should share the same understanding about the semantics of terms. For example, they should know that 'Part' and 'Item' are different word-expressions for the same meaning. In this paper, we consider sharing between CAD and PDM data. In order to handle such problems in information sharing, an information system needs to automatically recognize that the terms have the same semantics. Serving this purpose, the semantic mapping logic and the ontology based mapper system is described in this paper. In the semantic mapping logic topic, we introduce our logic that consists of four modules: Character Matching, Instance Reasoning, definition comparing and Similarity Checking. In the ontology based mapper, we introduce the system architecture and the mapping procedure.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.97-105
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• 2016

With the increasing demand for interoperability among existing learning resource systems in order to enable the sharing of learning resources, such resources need to be annotated with ontologies that use different metadata standards. These different ontologies must be reconciled through ontology mediation, so as to cope with information heterogeneity problems, such as semantic and structural conflicts. In this paper, we propose an ontology-mapping technique using Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) to generate semantic mapping rules that integrate learning resources from different systems and that cope with semantic and structural conflicts. Reasoning rules are defined to support a semantic search for heterogeneous learning resources, which are deduced by rule-based inference. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach enables the integration of learning resources originating from multiple sources and helps users to search across heterogeneous learning resource systems.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.422-430
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• 2008

Data integration is techniques to combine heterogeneous data from different sources, and to allow users to transparently access all data from multiple sources via a single view. The difficulty with data integration is data heterogeneity (i.e. schema heterogeneity, semantic heterogeneity). Richer semantics of data is a major factor in resolving conflicts among heterogeneous data sources. As UML class model represents only schema-based semantics of data, alternative methods such as ontology is useful for representing additional semantics. This paper proposes a method for integrating two data sources with UML class models by using an analysis of their ontologies. In our framework, ontology will be applied to describe semantics of data in each source. Then the ontologies are analysed and compared to determine their similarities and differences. The result of the comparison is used to devise an integrated ontology that will enable querying on the integrated information.

• 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.