Formal Semantic Annotations for Models Interoperability in a PLM environment

TL;DR

This paper proposes a formal semantic annotation approach to enhance model interoperability in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) environments, addressing semantic heterogeneity issues across enterprise applications.

Contribution

It introduces a novel formal semantic annotation method specifically designed for enriching models in PLM systems to improve interoperability.

Findings

Identifies drawbacks in current semantic annotation practices.

Proposes a formal approach tailored for PLM environments.

Aims to facilitate better model sharing and reuse.

Abstract

Nowadays, the need for system interoperability in or across enterprises has become more and more ubiquitous. Lots of research works have been carried out in the information exchange, transformation, discovery and reuse. One of the main challenges in these researches is to overcome the semantic heterogeneity between enterprise applications along the lifecycle of a product. As a possible solution to assist the semantic interoperability, semantic annotation has gained more and more attentions and is widely used in different domains. In this paper, based on the investigation of the context and the related works, we identify some existing drawbacks and propose a formal semantic annotation approach to support the semantics enrichment of models in a PLM environment.