A Proposal for an Electromagnetic Ontology Framework

Ontologies are more and more adopted to provide knowledge sharing and reuse, and to promote cooperation. Up to now they have been experienced in diverse areas ranging from medicine and biology to geography, astronomy and defence. Less has been made in the electromagnetic (EM) research area, where an increasing need of cooperation and resource sharing is emerging, and the range of potential semantic-based applications seems to be wide, thus rendering the implementation of a well structured ontology crucial. This paper presents a proposal for an EM ontology framework and describes the implementation of an ontology for aperture-antenna array design as specific example of practical application.

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