This work aims to describe and analyse the COMPOSITION Ontology’s first version which is delivered as software alongside with this report. Also, in this report the current state of the design of the Ontology API’s first version is described. The ontology framework design is driven by COMPOSITION project use cases, requirements and WP6 activities related to Marketplace. COMPOSITION Collaborative Ecosystem needs a knowledge base in order to support flexible specification and execution of manufacturing collaboration schemes.
The knowledge base should enable the description of supply and demand entities participating in the Ecosystem as well as the description of manufacturing services’ capabilities and resources for participating entities. In order to cover these needs a Collaborative Manufacturing Services Ontology is adopted and will be used as a common vocabulary to offer interoperability and representation of both meanings and data. As the knowledge store will keep information about business entities and their services, the Ecosystem Agents will be able to make transactions based on this information.
An agent who requests a service or a product will be able to find matching agents who support this service or product based on the information of COMPOSITION Marketplace Ontology. Moreover, the Marketplace will be able to match possible solutions or services providers by inferring new knowledge from the Ontology store.
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