Information and communication technologies are permeating all aspects of industrial and
manufacturing systems, expediting the generation of large volumes of industrial data. This …

During recent years, globalization has had an impact on the competitive capacity of
industries, forcing them to integrate their productive processes with other, geographically …

In biology field, the ontology application relates to a large amount of genetic information and
chemical information of molecular structure, which makes knowledge of ontology concepts …

The increasing focus on environmental practices has led academia and industry to address
eco-sustainability in different ways. Recent improvements to supply chain management …

The industrial revolutions have challenged organisations to rethink their product design and
manufacturing processes, making them faster and more connected to market demands and …

An essential requirement in integrating tasks in product development is to have a seamless
exchange of product information through the entire product lifecycle. A key challenge in the …

For many years now, the importance of semantic technologies, that provide a formal, logic-
based route to sharing meaning, has been recognised as offering the potential to support …

Since the early days of ontology engineering, manufacturing is one of the main areas where
ontologies have traditionally been applied (Guarino et al., 1997; Uschold and Grüninger …

As progress towards globalisation continues, organisations seek ever better ways with
which to configure and reconfigure their global production networks so as to better …

Efficient information sharing demands formal information structures in order to make sure the
semantic interoperability across different phases of Product Development Process. This …