Towards Industrial Strength Knowledge Bases for Product Lifecycle Management

The benefits of using semantic technologies for industrial applications are becoming more and more apparent. While their general usefulness is widely acknowledged, the uptake of technologies originally developed for the semantic web is complicated by the mismatch between industrial requirements and design principles of standards such as OWL. In this paper, we argue for the need of a flexible, metamodel-driven approach to address non-functional requirements for the use of knowledge bases in industrial settings and present a lightweight metamodel for ontologies and rules.

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