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Vol: 59(73) No: 2 / December 2014 

Method for Knowledge Driven Element Generation on Levels of RFLP Structure
László Horváth
Institute of Applied Mathematics, Óbuda University, John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics, H-1034, Bécsi u. 96/b, Budapest, Hungary, phone: +(36-1)666-5524, e-mail: horvath.laszlo@nik.uni-obuda.hu, web: http://users.nik.uni-obuda.hu/lhorvath/lhpag27.htm
Imre J. Rudas
Institute of Applied Mathematics, Óbuda University, John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics, H-1034, Bécsi u. 96/b, Budapest, Hungary, phone: +(36-1) 666-5731, e-mail: rudas@uni-obuda.hu, web: http://www.uni-obuda.hu/rudas/


Keywords: Product lifecycle management, abstraction in product model, knowledge based engineering, RFLP structure, RBAC structure

Abstract
Lifecycle management of complex product information (PLM) at engineering for complex structures as aircrafts and cars is increasingly relied upon modeling methods from requirements engineering (RE), knowledge engineering (KE) and systems engineering (SE). Recently, very complex product models are organized by the requirement, functional, logical, and physical (RFLP) structure. At the same time, knowledge property (KP) of company is active in generic product models at making model instances. RFLP structure offers suitably high level abstraction for emerging multidisciplinary products. Early recognition of the above trend motivated the authors of this paper to make research in model representation on high level abstraction of product objects. The published results of this research grounded the research for the request, behavior, action, and context (RBAC) structure at the Laboratory of Intelligent Engineering Systems (LIES, Óbuda University. The RBAC is model representation of knowledge based content for RFLP structure elements. This paper introduces state-of-the-art in relevant PLM modeling and explains actual problems and solutions at modeling of complex products. Following this, paper characterizes the RBAC structure and its connections in product model. The next section discusses the knowledge engineering in RBAC structure, as well as the potential of soft computing (SC), and role system of systems engineering (SoSE) in PLM modeling. Finally, implementation of the proposed model is discussed.

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