关键词: 本体, 功能设计, 功能建模, 知识表示, 多智能体

Abstract: To solve problems of knowledge sharing and knowledge exchange among heterogeneous function models, a novel ontologybased function modeling framework was presented. This framework consisted of three parts, i.e., the ontologybased knowledge representation model for function design, semantic restriction rules, and function reasoning rules. As an illustration, the centrifugal blower ontology repository was built by using Web Ontology Language (OWL) to validate this framework. Based on ontologybased function model, a collaborative multiAgent function design environment was presented. In this scheme, OWL was used as a content language within the standard FIPA Agent Communication Language (FIPA ACL) messages for describing ontologies, enabling exchanges of diverse function design ontologies among different Agents, and providing support for meaningful collaborative function designs.

Key words: ontology, function design, function modeling, knowledge representation, multiAgent