Semantic annotations for semantic interoperability in a product lifecycle management context

Yongxin Liao (1) , Mario Lezoche (1) , Hervé Panetto (1) , Nacer Boudjlida (2)

1 CRAN - Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy
2 LORIA - AIS - Department of Complex Systems, Artificial Intelligence & Robotics

The interoperability among a variety of systems, in or across manufacturing enterprises, has been widely accepted as one of the important factors that affect the efficiency of production. Many research works, related to the interoperability at different levels, have been carried out to tackle the information exchange, transformation, discovery and reuse. One of the main challenges in these research works is to overcome the semantic heterogeneity in the exchanged information between enterprise applications along the life cycle of a product. As a possible solution to support the semantic interoperability issue, semantic annotations have gained more and more attention. This paper identifies several existing drawbacks and proposes a formal semantic annotation approach to support the semantic enrichment of models in a product lifecycle management context.

Mots clés: Enterprise Models; Product Lifecycle Management; Semantic Interoperability; Information Systems; Semantic Annotation; Formalisation

Domaines: Ingénierie assistée par ordinateur

Yongxin Liao, Mario Lezoche, Hervé Panetto, Nacer Boudjlida. Semantic annotations for semantic interoperability in a product lifecycle management context. International Journal of Production Research, 2016, 54 (18), pp.5534-5553. ⟨10.1080/00207543.2016.1165875⟩. ⟨hal-01286475⟩