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Towards the semantic grid: putting knowledge to work in design optimisation

Towards the semantic grid: putting knowledge to work in design optimisation
Towards the semantic grid: putting knowledge to work in design optimisation
Modern computational Problem Solving Environments (PSEs) become more and more complex and knowledge intensive in terms of their integrated toolsets, in particular for engineering design search and optimization. Whether these toolsets can be assembled effectively to produce satisfactory results depends heavily on using the best domain practice and following decisions made by skilled engineers in practical situations. In this paper, a knowledge based approach is used to acquire this knowledge from existing sources and model it in a maintainable fashion. Ontologies are used to develop the conceptualization of a knowledge base. In order to reuse this knowledge to provide guidance at knowledge intensive points, we propose a knowledge based advisor, which can give a context-aware critique to guide users through effective operations of building domain workflows. The concept of a state panel is proposed to collect system state information, which is then reasoned about together with various task models in the JESS (Java Expert System Shell) environment. Two reasoning strategies are designed for different advising styles. A multilayer and client-server style architecture is proposed to illustrate how this advisor can be deployed to make available its knowledge advising service to a real workflow construction PSE in a maintainable fashion. Throughout we use the example of these knowledge services in the context of design optimization in engineering.
Knowledge engineering, ontology, XML, knowledge base, JESS, production rules, workflow planning
Tao, Feng
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Chen, Liming
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Shadbolt, Nigel
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Pound, Graeme
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Cox, Simon
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Tao, Feng
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Shadbolt, Nigel
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Pound, Graeme
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Cox, Simon
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Tao, Feng, Chen, Liming, Shadbolt, Nigel, Pound, Graeme and Cox, Simon (2003) Towards the semantic grid: putting knowledge to work in design optimisation. I-KNOW '03 International Conference on Knowledge Management, , Graz, Austria. 02 - 04 Jul 2003.

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Abstract

Modern computational Problem Solving Environments (PSEs) become more and more complex and knowledge intensive in terms of their integrated toolsets, in particular for engineering design search and optimization. Whether these toolsets can be assembled effectively to produce satisfactory results depends heavily on using the best domain practice and following decisions made by skilled engineers in practical situations. In this paper, a knowledge based approach is used to acquire this knowledge from existing sources and model it in a maintainable fashion. Ontologies are used to develop the conceptualization of a knowledge base. In order to reuse this knowledge to provide guidance at knowledge intensive points, we propose a knowledge based advisor, which can give a context-aware critique to guide users through effective operations of building domain workflows. The concept of a state panel is proposed to collect system state information, which is then reasoned about together with various task models in the JESS (Java Expert System Shell) environment. Two reasoning strategies are designed for different advising styles. A multilayer and client-server style architecture is proposed to illustrate how this advisor can be deployed to make available its knowledge advising service to a real workflow construction PSE in a maintainable fashion. Throughout we use the example of these knowledge services in the context of design optimization in engineering.

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Published date: 2003
Additional Information: Event Dates: July 2-4
Venue - Dates: I-KNOW '03 International Conference on Knowledge Management, , Graz, Austria, 2003-07-02 - 2003-07-04
Keywords: Knowledge engineering, ontology, XML, knowledge base, JESS, production rules, workflow planning
Organisations: Electronics & Computer Science

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Local EPrints ID: 257886
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/257886
PURE UUID: 1d31d8ea-fd6c-4858-acbb-14519abf95fc

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Date deposited: 26 Jun 2003
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 06:04

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Contributors

Author: Feng Tao
Author: Liming Chen
Author: Nigel Shadbolt
Author: Graeme Pound
Author: Simon Cox

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