The Hybrid Knowledge Model for Product Development Management

Hybrid knowledge model is suggested as an underlying framework for product development management. It can support such hybrid features as ontologies and rules. Effective collaboration in product development environment depends on sharing and reasoning product information as well as engineering knowledge. Many studies have considered product information and engineering knowledge. However, most previous research has focused either on building the ontology of product information or rule-based systems of engineering knowledge. This paper shows that F-logic based knowledge model can support such desirable features in a hybrid way.

Authors:

• Heejung Lee
• Hyo-Won Suh

Keywords:

• Ontology
• rule
• F-logic
• product development.

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