In the interests of its clients, ontoprise is continously expanding its technological leadership in the field of ontology processing and semantic applications. For this purpose, ontoprise is in permanent interactive contact with research institutions and other companies all over the world.

At the moment Ontoprise is active in the following research projects with well-known partners as for example AUDI, BAE, BMW, DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Telekom, DFKI, Empolis, FIAT, Fraunhofer, FZI Karlsruhe, Intel, Renault, Rolls Royce, SAP, Siemens, Software AG, University of Karlsruhe (TH) and many more.

ONTORULE (ONTOlogies meet business RULEs) is a large-scale integrating project (IP) partially funded by the European Union's 7th Framework Programmen under the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Call 3 (ICT-231875). Leading vendors of knowledge-based systems and a handful of top research institutions join their efforts to develop the technology that will empower business policies in the enterprise of the future. Two large companies are the test-beds that ensure the success and business impact of the technology produced by ONTORULE.

 

Further information can be found at the official webpage of the project: ontorule-project.eu

 

 
THESEUS is a research program initiated by the Federal Ministry of Economy and Technology (BMWi), with the goal of developing a new Internet-based infrastructure in order to better use and utilize the knowledge available on the Internet. The focus of the research program is on semantic technologies. Using these technologies, computer programs can intelligently comprehend the context in which data were stored and draw logical inferences from the contents and auto­nomously recognize and produce connections between various pieces of information from different sources. In this new semantic infrastructure, companies will also be able to communicate more efficiently with other companies and, more to the point, with their customers as well as consumers in the future. THESEUS is therefore contributing to the creation of a knowledge- and IT-based service economy (Internet of services).

TEXO is a sub-project within the THESEUS research program. TEXO contributes to service economy by creating infrastructure components for Business Webs in the Internet of Services. The goal of TEXO is to provide a platform which makes services tradable on the internet, composable into value-added services, and allows the integration of customized services into the environment of service consumers. TEXO addresses the full lifecycle of these services from innovation to consumption via intuitive interfaces and technical systems. Therefore, the TEXO project takes advantage of semantic technologies to describe the content of services in order to enable automatic processing of service descriptions.
Ontoprise is responsible for the core technologies of the semantic backend of TEXO. With our workpackage partner SAP Research we will deliver the semantic platform to operate and run novel service descriptions and applications developed in TEXO and later on by customers, companies or service providers. Ontoprise delivers the core parts of the Semantic Backend, i.e. reasoning technology, metadata repositories based on that technologies and administration tools.

Website: www.theseus-programm.de

 
The NeOn project is a multi-million Euro project involving 14 European partners and co-funded by the European Commission’s Sixth Framework Programme. NeOn started in March 2006 and aims over the course of four years to advance the state of the art in using ontologies for large-scale semantic applications in the distributed organizations. This particularly aims at improving the capability to handle multiple networked ontologies that exist in a particular context, are created collaboratively, and might be highly dynamic and constantly evolving.
One of the first outcomes of the NeOn project is the NeOn Toolkit, an extensible Ontology Engineering Environment that is part of the reference implementation of the NeOn architecture. It contains plugins for ontology management and visualization. A number of commercial plugins extend the toolkit by various functionalities, including rule support (graphical/textual editing, debugging), mediation between ontologies (graphical mapping, interpretation of mapping rules), database integration (import of database schema, life database-access during query answering), or query and reasoning support. Ontoprise is delivering major parts of the NeOn Toolkit and plugins.

The NeOn reference architecture with the NeOn Toolkit will then enable efficient implementations of semantic applications, in open environments such as the Semantic Web, in support of the automation of Business to Business relationships, and also in company intranets.

Website: www.neon-project.org

Aletheia is a leading innovation project, sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, that aims at obtaining comprehensive access to product information through the use of semantic technologies.

 

Today’s systems for managing product information focus on the development, production, and distribution phases. Thereby they neglect the preceding customer demand analysis and product portfolio management phases, as well as the subsequent operations, maintenance, and recycling phases. In addition, important and increasingly comprehensive sources of information, such as internet forums, blogs, wikis, and emails or office application documents, are currently not collected. Finally, current systems are not suited for product types, such as software or services.

 

These deficits in the central product lifecycle points, information sources, and product types are addressed by Aletheia. On the one hand, Aletheia consults structured data from company-owned information sources, such as product databases, to respond to inquiries, but on the other hand also unstructured data from office documents and web 2.0 sources, such as wikis, blogs, and web forums, as well as sensor and RFID data are regarded.

 

The information contained in these heterogeneous sources is converted into a homogeneous form to respond to user inquiries. Hereby, the information that is explicitly contained in the source is not only returned, but semantic technologies are used in order to deduce implicit knowledge and make it available for the user. The results are returned in a context-oriented manner. This means they will be presented in a design that is adapted to the context and role of the user (customer, customer service staff, product designer, etc.). As such, it is important to consider the respective access rights and data security.

 

For further information please visit www.aletheia-projekt.de

 

Within the BMBF funded joint research project V.em.Pro an integrated development environment will be developed that allows considering knowledge about the reliability of a product in an early stage of the development cycle of multifunctional products. A holistic concept will be developed that allows the virtualisation of the product concept as well as the knowledge and rule based analysis of the reliability of the developed concept.

 

The aim is to develop a computer aided tool for developing virtual product concepts in early stages of the development cycle as well as for modelling and representing knowledge about the reliability of the developed products using ontologies.

 

The main idea of the approach is the heterogeneous modelling of multifunctional product concepts as well as the derivation of actions and strategies to increase the reliability of the products to be developed in an early stage of the development cycle.

 

The Project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and is supervised by the Project Management Agency Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (PTKA).

  

For further information please visit www.produktionsforschung.de/verbundprojekte/vp/index.htm?TF_ID=49&VP_ID=2642

 

 


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