Knowledge Ontology Based Management System of Furniture Design

The application of ontology in information integration field is now receiving more and more concern. This article presents a management method for furniture design knowledge and cases based on knowledge ontology. The method includes three phases of conceptualization, knowledge enquiry and reuse. After the analysis of basic concept and characteristic of furniture design knowledge, the knowledge ontology frame and its reasoning algorithm is established first, it can help furniture designers to search for furniture design knowledge and cases, thus achieves the aim of design knowledge reuse. And then, a knowledge management system of furniture design is developed to explain and validate the method. It can greatly promote the efficiency and innovation of furniture designers, and new designers can also learn explicit and implicit knowledge from design cases.