Engineering ontology OntoCAPE

An Information can be further characterized through a ContentDescription. For the domain of chemical engineering, classes (or composite expressions) from the OntoCAPE ontology can be used as such. 

The current Work Process module of the Process Ontology abstracts from the characteristics of special types of work processes and provides a set of basic elements for modeling a wide range of processes. The Chemical Engineering Work Processes module imports both the Work Process module and the OntoCAPE product data model, and thus it provides the concepts required for modeling conceptual design processes in chemical engineering and their products (cf. Subsect. 2.6.2). 

The Decision Ontology has been developed in IMPROVE to complement the product data, document and design process models. Its architectural principles are fully compliant with those of OntoCAPE and the Process Ontology. The Decision Ontology is an extension of DRL, an existing decision model, to cover the requirements identified in engineering design processes. 

OntoCAPE is the core of the integrated model which describes the concepts of chemical engineering, the specific application domain of interest in the IMPROVE project. The product data in OntoCAPE are well integrated with the Document Model by direct references from the document content description to product data elements in OntoCAPE. Likewise, the elements of the document content description link the product model in OntoCAPE to the decision and work process documentation in the Process and Decision Ontologies. 

Morbach, J., Wiesner, A., Marquardt, W. OntoCAPE 2.0 - a (re-)usable ontology for computer-aided process engineering. In Proceedings of the European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering - ESCAPE 18, accepted (2008)... 

OntoCAPE is an ontology for supporting computer-aided process engineering (CAPE). It was designed at the RWTH Aachen University, and it is discussed in numerous publications in details (Morbach et al. 2009). It has a modular stmcture consisting of 60 -I- OWL files (with the meta-model, it has more than 80 files). 

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