AIEDAM
Special Issue, Winter 2009, Vol.23, No.1
{Was Fall 2008, Vol.22 No.4}
Developing and Using Engineering Ontologies
Edited by:
Chris McMahon &
Jos van Leeuwen
The development of Engineering Ontologies aims to establish formal
information definitions in the engineering domain, in order to enable
the application of a wide range of technologies for the support of
design and engineering. Ontologies allow us to build semantically
richer knowledge models, to facilitate better communication of such
models, and to develop and apply knowledge-based technologies that
require semantic resources.
Engineering presents some special challenges in ontology development.
It is characterized by diversity, complexity and multiplicity. It
involves many stages, each of which has its own unique tasks and
activities. Its focus on the possible or potential leads to a strong
emphasis on abstraction. The engineering enterprise is often
geographically distributed, with tasks carried out in many different
languages, and this may constrain access to domain experts for the
purposes of ontology construction or verification. So while there are
no problems associated with the development of ontologies for
engineering that cannot be found elsewhere, engineering is perhaps
unique in the combination of the challenges faced.
For this special issue we invite contributions regarding the
development of engineering ontologies as well as their usage. Topics
that may be addressed include, but are not limited to the following.
On the development of engineering ontologies:
- Methods for ontology development;
- Tools for ontology development;
- Ontology interoperability;
- Ontology merging;
- Multi-lingual ontologies;
- Ontology standardisation issues;
- The identification of existing knowledge models for potential reuse;
- Methods for ontology validation and consensus;
- Support for distributed collaborative ontology development and revision.
On the usage of engineering ontologies:
- Novel applications of ontologies;
- AI enabled through ontologies;
- Enhanced communication;
- Automated reasoning / Knowledge discovery;
- Scalability issues;
- Frameworks for the utilisation of ontologies;
- The integration and reconciliation of ontology content from a diverse
source pool.
All submissions will be anonymously reviewed by at least two expert
reviewers, and a selection for publication made on the basis of these
reviews.
Information about the format and style required for
AIEDAM papers can be found at
www.cs.wpi.edu/~aiedam/Instructions/.
However, note that all submissions for the special issue go to the
Guest Editor, and not to the Editor in
Chief.
DRAFT Important dates:
Intent to submit
(with Title & Abstract, 300-800 words) As soon as possible
Submission deadline for full papers: 21 September 2007 ***
Reviews due: 31 December 2007
Notification and reviews to authors: 12 January 2008
Revised version submission deadline: 10 May 2008
Final papers due: 12 July 2008
Guest editors:
Please direct all enquiries and submissions to the guest editors:
Jos van Leeuwen
Department of Art and Design
University of Madeira
PORTUGAL
Email: josvl @ uma.pt
Chris McMahon
University of Bath
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Claverton Down
Bath
BA2 7AY
ENGLAND
Email: c.a.mcmahon @ bath.ac.uk
