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Fig. 1.9
CFD model in X3D
Fig. 1.10
FEM model in
X3D
the ontology models existence in each selected software tool, and thus prior to
their integration. Such ontology-modeled knowledge is expected to make visible
the intrinsic parts of the involved software applications enabling the application-
to-application communication. The expected benefits are in the reduction in the
engineer's (domain experts) time when using the software and in the software
development efficiency by eliminating programmable errors, introduced when
programmers have to program manually such complex software integration.
The envisaged approach is expected to contribute:
• Coherent semantics: different application domains develop different terminol-
ogy for describing the same concept, but for example, when the results are
graphically displayed, it is far easier to agree on them.
• Knowledge reuse: there is a need for the development of related ontologies
outside the application tools and data models, in order to be able to reuse the
exiting know-how in-between multidisciplinary software components.
Conceptually, each X3D application is a 3D time-based space of graphical,
video, and audio objects that can be loaded, exchanged, and reused in a distributed
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