Ontology-based Multi-perspective Task Decomposition to Support Composite Manufacturing Service Discovery

This paper explores an ontology-based multi-perspective task decomposition strategy to support composite service discovery of manufacturing resources across ubiquitous virtual enterprises in distributed manufacturing environments. A new ontology-based decomposition-supported service modeling approach is proposed for distributed management of heterogeneous manufacturing resources, enabling to add decomposition-aware semantics to manufacturing services to endow them with semantic capabilities needed for their flexible decomposition and reuse in distributed manufacturing. The multi-perspective task decomposition strategy based on description logic, production rule and workflow is used to support the decomposition and discovery of the heterogeneous manufacturing services in a meaningful manner. The proposed work can be combined with existing manufacturing service modeling and discovery works to handle much complicated service-oriented manufacturing tasks.