An Ontology-Enabled Case-Based Reasoning Decision Support System for Manufacturing Process Selection

<table class="table-group" id="tab1"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Features</td><td class="align_center">CBR</td><td class="align_center">Ontology</td><td class="align_center">Ontology-enabled CBR</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Complex representation of knowledge through the concepts and relations of object-oriented modeling and design (classes, instances, relations, properties and attributes, and inheritance)</td><td class="align_left"> </td><td class="align_center">✓</td><td class="align_center">✓</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Knowledge representation of past experiences and outcomes</td><td class="align_center">✓</td><td class="align_left"> </td><td class="align_center">✓</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Inferencing and reasoning based on similarity</td><td class="align_center">✓</td><td class="align_left"> </td><td class="align_center">✓</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Inferencing, reasoning, and automatic classification based on restrictions and rules</td><td class="align_left"> </td><td class="align_center">✓</td><td class="align_center">✓</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="4"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<div>Appealing features of ontology and CBR combination.</div>

Advances in Materials Science and Engineering

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Table 1: An Ontology-Enabled Case-Based Reasoning Decision Support System for Manufacturing Process Selection 