The Knowledge Reuse in an Industrial Scenario: A Case Study

Many recent research works have investigated the potential of an Ontology-based approach to support the standardization of the information in industrial scenarios. A key success factor in this regard is the effective and efficient reuse of existing knowledge sources because the building of new ones from scratch is an expensive and time-consuming activity. Although there are many advantages for reuse in the knowledge engineering, the topic is not explored in depth and the current state of the art in this field demands further investigation. The study introduced in this paper addresses the applicability of an approach to knowledge reuse based on the combination of existing techniques and methods proposed in the literature. Specifically, the experimentation has been carried out in the context of the ongoing European research project Apps4aME, where an automated framework for knowledge reuse has been tested and validated, focusing in particular on the food knowledge domain. The paper summarizes the main results of the research work and includes the emerging issues as well as some proposals to overcome them.