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Natural Language Interface for Goal-Oriented Knowledge Graphs Using Retrieval-Augmented Generation,
Kosuke Yano, Yoshinobu Kitamura, and Kazuhiro Kuwabara,
In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART),
Vol. 3, pp. 975-982,
Porto, Portugal, February 23-25, 2025,
Article
Patent Analysis Using an Ontology of Qualities of Inorganic Materials Based on Context-Dependency,
Yoshinobu Kitamura, Koki Taniguchi and Shinichi Kato,
In Proc. of 13th International Workshop on Formal Ontologies Meet Industry (FOMI 2024),
Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2024) - Episode X: The Tukker Zomer of Ontology,
and satellite events co-located with
the 14th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2024), July 15-19, 2024, Enschede, The Netherlands,
Article,
A Nominated Paper of the Best of JOMO Award
Ontological Analysis of Money,
Riichiro Mizoguchi, Stefano Borgo and Yoshinobu Kitamura,
In Proc. of the 14th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2024),
pp.135-148, IOS Press,
July 15-19, 2024, Enschede, The Netherlands,
Article,
A Best Paper Candidate
Formalizing and Adapting a General Function Module for Foundational Ontologies,
Stefano Borgo, Riichiro Mizoguchi, Yoshinobu Kitamura
In Proc. of the 9th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2016), July 6-9, 2016, Annecy, France,
R. Ferrario and W. Kuhn (Eds.),
IOS Press, pp. 241-254 (2016)
Article (PDF,
268KB), The article page on the publisher site
Systematic Description of Nursing Actions Based on Goal Realization Model,
Satoshi Nishimura, Yoshinobu Kitamura, Munehiko Sasajima,and Riichiro Mizoguchi,
In Proc. of 15th European Conference on Knowledge Management - ECKM 2014, September 4-5, 2014, Santarém, Portugal, Academic Conferences and Publishing International Ltd., pp. 730-739 (2014)
CHARMing Clinical Pathways - Modeling of Clinical Pathways based on the Goal-Oriented Ontological Framework CHARM.
Satoshi Nishimura, Genma Nishijima, Yoshinobu Kitamura, Munehiko Sasajima, Toshihiro Takeda, Yasushi Matsumura and Riichiro Mizoguchi,
In Proc. of the 7th International Conference on Health Informatics, March 3-6, 2014. Angers, France, SCITEPRESS, pp. 211-221 (2014).
CHARM Pad: Ontology-based Tool for Learning Systematic Knowledge about Nursing,
Munehiko Sasajima, Satoshi Nishimura, Yoshinobu Kitamura, Akemi Hirao, Kanetoshi Hattori, Akemi Nakamura, Hiroe Takahashi, Yoshiyuki Takaoka and Riichiro Mizoguchi
In Proc of the Second International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability (DUXU 2013), held as Part of HCI International 2013, July 21-26, 2013,Las Vegas, USA, Part IV, LNCS 8015, pp 560-567, Springer (2013)
Towards A Unified Definition of Function
Riichiro Mizoguchi, Yoshinobu Kitamura and Stefano Borgo:
In Proc. of the 7th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2012), Graz, Austria, July 24-27, 2012, pp. 103-116, IOS Press (2012)
Article (PDF, 236KB)
Are Services Functions?
Kouhei Sumita, Yoshinobu Kitamura, Munehiko Sasajima and Riichiro Mizoguchi:
In Proc. of Third International Conference on Exploring Services Science (IESS 2012), Geneva, Switzerland, February 15-17, 2012, LNBIP 103, pp.58-72, Springer (2012)
Article (PDF, 694KB)
A Model of Derived Roles
Kouji Kozaki, Yoshinobu Kitamura and Riichiro Mizoguchi
In Proc. of the 18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2012), Galway, Ireland,
October 8-12, 2012, LNAI 7603, pp.227-236, Springer (2012)
Article (PDF, 394KB), Article(publisher site)
Technical Artifact: An Integrated Perspectives
Stefano Borgo, Maarten Franssen, Pawel Garbacz, Yoshinobu Kitamura, Riichiro
Mizoguchi, and Pieter E. Vermaas
In Proc. of the Fifth International workshop Formal Ontologies Meet Industry
(FOMI 2011), July 7-8, 2011, Delft, The Netherlands, Pieter E. Vermaas and Virginia
Dignum (eds.), IOS Press (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), pp. 3-15, 2011.
Article (PDF, 240KB)
An Ontology of Classification Criteria for Functional Taxonomies
Yoshinobu Kitamura, Sho Segawa, Munehiko Sasajima, Riichiro Mizoguchi
In Proc. of ASME 2011 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences
and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (ASME IDETC/CIE 2011),
August 28-31, 2011, Washington, DC, USA, DETC2011-48125 (CD-ROM), 2011
Article (PDF, 470KB)
FOREST: An Ontological Modeling Framework for Product-Related Processes
Yoshinobu Kitamura, Yusuke Koji, Riichiro Mizoguchi
In Proc. of the 7th International Conf. of Engineering Design in Integrated
Product Development (EDIProD 2011), Wroclaw, Poland, 30 June - 1 July, 2011,
pp. 39-49, 2011 (invited).
Article (PDF, 380KB
Characterizing Functions based on Ontological Models from an Engineering Point
of View
Yoshinobu Kitamura and Riichiro Mizoguchi
In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information
Systems (FOIS 2010), Toronto, Canada, May 11-14, 2010, pp. 301-314, IOS Press,
2010.
Article(PDF,
237KB), publisher
site
The Counting Problem in the Light of Role Kinds
Claudio Masolo, Laure Vieu, Yoshinobu Kitamura, Kouji Kozaki and Riichiro Mizoguchi
Proc. of Tenth International Symposium on Logical Formalizations of Commonsense
Reasoning (Commonsense 2011),Stanford University, CA, USA, March 21-23, 2011.
Article(PDF 237KB)
Task-Oriented User Modeling Method and its Application to Service Navigation
on the Web
Munehiko Sasajima, Yoshinobu Kitamura and Riichiro Mizoguchi
M.Yoshikawa et al.(Eds.):DASFAA 2010 International Workshop(SNSMW2010):Reviced
Selected Papers, LNCS 6193, pp.240-251, Tsukuba, Japan, April 1-4, 2010.
Some Ontological Distinctions of Function based on the Role Concept
Yoshinobu Kitamura, Riichiro Mizoguchi
In Proc. of the ASME 2009 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences
& Computers and Information in Engineering Conference ( IDETC/CIE 2009),
August 30 - September 2, 2009, San Diego, California, USA, DETC2009-87168, 2009.
Prototyping of Task-Oriented Mobile Navigation System with Real Scale Mobile Services,
Munehiko Sasajima, Koichiro Furutani, Yoshinobu Kitamura, Takefumi Naganuma, Shoji Kurakake and Riichiro Mizoguchi,
In Proc. of Advances in Computer Science and Engineering (ACSE 2009), pp.205-210, Mar.16-18, 2009
Article(PDF, Final draft)
Deep Semantic Mapping between Functional Taxonomies for Interoperable Semantic Search
Yoshinobu Kitamura, Sho Segawa, Munehiko Sasajima, Shinya Tarumi and Riichiro Mizoguchi
Proc. of the 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2008), LNCS 5367, pp. 137-151, February 2-5, Bangkok, Thailand, 2008
Article (preprint, PDF, 920KB) publisher site
Towards A Reference Ontolog y for Functional Knowledge Interoperability
Kitamura, Y., Takafuji, S., Mizoguchi, R.
In Proc. of the ASME 2007 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference ( IDETC/CIE 2007), September 4-7, 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, DETC2007-35373, 2007.
Towards Interoperability between Functional Taxonomies using an Ontollogy-based Mapping
Ookubo, M., Koji, Y., Sasajima, M., Kitamura, Y., Mizoguchi, R.
In Proc. of the 16th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED '07), Paris, France, 28-30 August 2007, CD-ROM, No. 154 (Abstract: pp.419-420), 2007.
Role Representation Model Using OWL and SWRL
K. Kozaki, E. Sunagawa, Y. Kitamura and R. Mizoguchi
Proc. of 2nd Workshop on Roles and Relationships in Object Oriented Programming, Multiagent Systems, and Ontologies, Berlin,July 30-31, pp.39-46, 2007
A Framework for Cooperative Ontology Construction Based on Dependency Management of Modules
Kouji Kozaki, Eiichi Sunagawa, Yoshinobu Kitamura, Riichiro Mizoguchi
In Proc. of International Workshop on Emergent Semantics and Ontology Evolution (ESOE2007), Nov. 12, 2007.
Distributed and Collaborative Construction of Ontologies Using Hozo
K. Kozaki, E. Sunagawa, Y. Kitamura and R. Mizoguchi
Proc. of Workshop on Social and Collaborative Construction of Structured Knowledge, Banff, Canada, May 8, 2007
Development of Contents Management System Based on Light-Weight Ontology
K. Kozaki, Y. Kitamura and R. Mizoguchi
In Proc. of the 2007 IAENG International Conference on Internet Computing and Web Services, Hong Kong, 21-23 March, pp.987-992, 2007
Development of a Design Supporting System for Nano-Materials based on a Framework for Integrated Knowledge of Functioning-Manufacturing Process
Shinya Tarumi, Kouji Kozaki, Yoshinobu Kitamura, Hidekazu Tanaka and Riichiro Mizoguchi
In Proc. of the 10th IASTED International Conference Intelligent Systems and Control(ISC2007),Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, November 19-21,pp.446-454, 2007.
Some Ontological Distinctions of Functions of Technical Artefacts,
Yoshinobu Kitamura and Riichiro Mizoguchi
The 15th Altenberg Workshop in Theoretical Biology "Comparative Philosophy of Technical Artefacts and Biological Organisms", September 21-24, 2006, Altenberg, Austria (Invited)
An Ontology-Based Annotation Framework for Representing the Functionality of Engineering Devices,
Kitamura, Y., Washio, N., Koji, Y., Sasajima, M., Takafuji, S., Mizoguchi, R.,
In Proc. of ASME 2006 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences &
Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (ASME IDETC/CIE 2006), September 10-13, 2006, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, DETC2006-99131, 2006.
Article
Roles of Ontologies of Engineering Artifacts for Design Knowledge Modeling,
Yoshinobu Kitamura,
In Proc. of the 5th International Seminar and Workshop Engineering Design in Integrated Product Development (EDIProD 2006), 21-23 September 2006, Gronow, Poland, pp. 59-69, 2006. (Invited)
Article (Preprint version)
Towards Ontologies of Functionality and Semantic Annotation for Technical Knowledge Management
Yoshinobu Kitamura, Naoya Washio, Yusuke Koji, and Riichiro Mizoguchi
New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: Joint JSAI 2005 Workshop Post-Proceedings, LNCS 4012, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pp. 17-28, June, 2006.
Towards a Reference Ontology of Functionality for Interoperable Annotation for Engineering Documents,
Yoshinobu Kitamura, Naoya Washio, Masanori Ookubo, Yusuke Koji, Munehiko Sasajima, Sunao Takafuji, Riichiro Mizoguchi
In Proc. of Posters and Demos of ESWC 2006, pp. 75-76, 11-14 June 2006, Budva, Montenegro, 2006.
Role organization model in Hozo,
Sunagawa, E., Kozaki, K., Kitamura, Y., Mizoguchi, R..
In Proc. of the 15th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2006), 2nd-6th October 2006 - Podebrady (near Prague), Czech Republic, LNCS 4248, Springer, pp. 67-81, 2006.
Fundamental Consideration of Role Concepts for Ontology Evaluation
Kouji Kozaki, Eiichi Sunagawa, Yoshinobu Kitamura and Riichiro Mizoguchi
Proc. of Evaluation of Ontologies for the Web (EON2006) 4th EON Workshop, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, May 22, 2006.
An Ontological Model of Device Function and its Deployment for Engineering Knowledge Sharing
Kitamura, Y., Koji, Y., Mizoguchi R.,
Proc. of the First Workshop FOMI 2005 - Formal Ontologies Meet Industry, Castelnuovo del Garda (VR), Italy, June 9-10, 2005, CD-ROM
Ontology-based Transformation from an Extended Functional Model to FMEA
Koji, Y., Kitamura, Y., Mizoguchi, R..
In Proc. of the 15th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED '05), Melbourne, Australia, 15-18 August 2005, CD-ROM, 264.81 (Abstract: pp.323-324), 2005.
Functional Metadata Schema for Engineering Knowledge Management
Yoshinobu Kitamura, Naoya Washio, Yusuke Koji and Riichiro Mizoguchi,
In Proc. of the Workshop on Activities on Semantic Web Technologies in Japan, CD-ROM, The 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2005), May 10, 2005, Chiba, Japan.
A Framework for Organizing Role Concepts in Ontology Development Tool: Hozo
Sunagawa, E., Kozaki, K., Kitamura, Y., Mizoguchi, R.
"Roles, an Interdisciplinary Perspective: Ontologies, Programming Languages, and Multiagent Systems" Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium Technical Report FS-05-08, pp.136-143, Arlington, Virginia, USA, 4-6 November 2005.
Developing Ontology-based Applications using Hozo
Kouji Kozaki, Yoshinobu Kitamura and Riichiro Mizoguchi
Proceedings of the Fourth IASTED International Conference on Computational Intelligence (CI2005), Calgary, Canada, July 4-6, 2005
Ontology-based Functional-Knowledge Modeling Methodology
and its Deployment
Kitamura, Y., Mizoguchi, R.,
Proc. of the 14th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge
Management EKAW 2004,�@pp.99-115, October 2004.
Coping with Unintended Behavior of Users and Products: Ontological Modelling
of Product Functionality and Use
Wilfred van der Vegte, Yoshinobu Kitamura, Yusuke Koji, Riichiro Mizoguchi
Proceedings of CIE 2004: ASME 2004 Design Engineering Technical Conferences
and Computers in Engineering Conference, September 28-October 2, 2004, Salt
Lake City, Utah, DETC2004-57720, to appear
Towards Modeling Design Rationale of Supplemen-tary Functions in Conceptual
Design.
Koji, Y., Kitamura, Y., Mizoguchi, R.:
In Proc. of the Fifth International Symposium on Tools and Methods of Competitive
Engineering (TMCE 2004), pp. 117-130, Lausanne, Switzerland, April 13-17, 2004
Organizing Knowledge about Functional Decomposition,
Kitamura, Y., Mizoguchi, R.,
Proc. of the 14th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED 03),
Stockholm, Sweden, August 19-21, 2003.
An Ontological
Schema for Sharing Conceptual Engineering Knowledge
Kitamura, Y., Mizoguchi, R.,
Proc. of the International Workshop on Semantic Web Foundations and Application
Technologies, pp. 25-28, Nara, Japan, March 12, 2003.
An Environment for Distributed Ontology Development Based on Dependency Management,
Eiichi Sunagawa, Kouji Kozaki, Yoshinobu Kitamura and Riichiro Mizoguchi ,
The 2nd Int'l Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2003), pp. 453-468, 2003.
Ontology-Based Modeling of Product Functionality
and Use -Part 1: Functional-Knowledge Modeling,
Y. Kitamura and R. Mizoguchi,
Proc. of The Third International Seminar and Workshop Engineering Design in
Integrated Product Development (EDIProD 2002), pp. 105-114, Lagow, Poland, October
10-12, 2002
Ontology-Based Modeling of Product Functionality
and Use - Part 2: Considering Use and Unintended Behavior
W.F van der Vegte, Y. Kitamura, R. Mizoguchi, I. Horvath
Proc. of The Third International Seminar and Workshop Engineering Design in
Integrated Product Development (EDIProD 2002), pp. 115-124, Lagow, Poland, October
10-12, 2002.
Hozo: An Environment for Building/Using Ontologies Based on a Fundamental Consideration
of "Role" and "Relationship"
Kouji Kozaki, Yoshinobu Kitamura, Mitsuru Ikeda, and Riichiro Mizoguchi
Proc. of the 13th International Conference Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge
Management(EKAW2002), pp.213-218, Siguenza, Spain, October 1-4, 2002
Ontology-based Description of Functional Design
Knowledge and its Use in a Functional Way Server,
Yoshinobu Kitamura, Toshinobu Kasai and Riichiro Mizoguchi,
Proc. of the Pacific Asian Conference on Intelligent Systems 2001 (PAIS 2001),
pp. 400-409, Seoul, Korea, November 16-17, 2001.
An Ontology Editor in Hozo - Treatment of "Role" and "Relationship",
Kouji Kozaki, Yoshinobu Kitamura, Mitsuru Ikeda, Riichiro Mizoguchi,
Proc. of the Pacific Asian Conference on Intelligent Systems 2001 (PAIS 2001),
pp. 256-264, 2001.
Functional Understanding based on an Ontology of
Functional Concepts,
Yoshinobu Kitamura, Toshinobu Sano and Riichiro Mizoguchi,
The Sixth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI
2000), pp.723-733, Melbourne, Australia, August 28 - September 1, 2000.
Towards Multi-view Functional Knowledge Server
based on a Functional Ontology,
Yoshinobu Kitamura, Toshio Ueda, Weiqin Chen and Riichiro Mizoguchi,
International Design Conference - DESIGN 2000, pp.407-412, Dubrovnik, Croatia,
May 23 - 26, 2000
Construction and Deployment of a Plant Ontology ,
Riichiro Mizoguchi, Kouji Kozaki, Toshinobu Sano and Yoshinobu Kitamura,
The 12th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management
- Methods, Models and Tools -, EKAW2000, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
1937, Springer-Verlag, pp.113-128, Juan-les-Pins, France, October 2-6, 2000
Development of an Environment for Building Ontologies which is based on a
Fundamental Consideration of "Relationship" and "Role",
Kouji Kozaki, Yoshinobu Kitamura, Mitsuru Ikeda, and Riichiro Mizoguchi,
The Sixth Pacific Knowledge Acquisition Workshop (PKAW2000), pp.205-221 ,Sydney,
Australia, December 11-13, 2000
Towards Redesign based on Ontologies of Functional
Concepts and Redesign Strategies
Yoshinobu Kitamura and Riichiro Mizoguchi
2nd International Workshop on Strategic Knowledge and Concept Formation, pp.181-192
An Ontological Analysis of Fault Process and Category
of Faults
Yoshinobu Kitamura and Riichiro Mizoguchi,
Proc. of Tenth International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX-99),
pp.118-128, June 8-11 1999, Loch Awe, Scotland, 1999
Meta-Functions of Artifacts,
Yoshinobu Kitamura and Riichiro Mizoguchi,
Proc. of The Thirteenth International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning (QR-99),
pp.136-145, June 6-9 1999, Loch Awe, Scotland, 1999
An Ontology-Based Human Friendly Message Generation in a Multiagent Human Media
System for Oil Refinery Plant Operation,
Riichiro Mizoguchi, Toshinobu Sano and Yoshinobu Kitamura,
Proc. of the IEEE SMC99, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, 1999.
Functional Ontology for Functional Understanding
Yoshinobu Kitamura and Riichiro Mizoguchi
Working Papers of Twelfth International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning (QR-98),
Cape Cod, USA, May 26-29, AAAI Technical Report WS-98-01, AAAI Press, pp.77-87,
1998
Towards Redesign of Manufacturing Processes based on Functional Understanding,
Yoshinobu Kitamura, Toshio Ueda, Masayoshi Fuse, Riichiro Mizoguchi
Poster Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence in Design '98, p.14, 1998.
A methodology of Collaborateive Synthesis by Artificial Intelligence
-- An innovative redesign method based on functional understanding --
Riichiro Mizoguchi and Yoshinobu Kitamura,
The Third IFIP Working Group 5.2 Workshop on Knowledge Intensive CAD (KIC-3),
pp.329-336, Dec 1998.
A Causal Time Ontology for Qualitative Reasoning,
Yoshinobu Kitamura, Mitsuru Ikeda, and Riichiro Mizoguchi,
Proc. of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(IJCAI-97), Nagoya, Japan, August 23-29, pp.501-506, 1997
An Ontological Consideration of Causal Time in Qualitative Reasoning Systems,
Yoshinobu KITAMURA, Mitsuru IKEDA, and Riichiro MIZOGUCHI,
Proc. of The Eleventh International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning (QR-97),
pp.277-285, 1997.
Domain Ontology Design for Model-based Reasoning and Its Evaluation
Y. Kitamura, M. Ikeda, R. Mizoguchi
Proc. of Pacific Asian Conference on Expert Systems (PACES) 97,
pp.275-282, Singapore, February, 1997
A Model-based Diagnosis with Fault Event Models
Y. Kitamura, M. Ueda, M. Ikeda, S. Kobori, O. Kakusho, R. Mizoguchi
Proc. of Pacific Asian Conference on Expert Systems (PACES) 97,
pp.322-329, Singapore, February, 1997
Diagnosis based on Fault Event Models
Y. Kitamura, M. Ueda, M. Ikeda, R. Mizoguchi
Working papers of 7th International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX-96),
TR of NRC-CNRC, Canada, pp.115-122, Val Morin, Canada, October, 1996.
A Qualitative Reasoning based on an Ontology of
Fluid Systems and Its Evaluation on a Power Plant
Y. Kitamura, M. Ikeda, R. Mizoguchi
Proc. of 4th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(PRICAI'96), Lecture Notes in AI 1114, Springer-Verlag, pp.288-299, Cairns,
Australia, August, 1996.
Domain Ontology for Representing Behavior and Function
Munehiko Sasajima, Yoshinobu Kitamura, Mitsuru Ikeda, Shinji Yoshikawa, Akira
Endou and Riichiro Mizoguchi
Proceedings of Pacific-Asian Conference on Expert Systems (PACES'95), Huangshan,
China, pp.147-154(1995�N5��)
FBRL:A Function and Behavior Representation Language
M. Sasajima, Y. Kitamura, M. IKEDA, and R. MIZOGUCHI
In Proc. of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
of IJCAI'95, pp.1830-1836, August 1995..
Model Building and Qualitative Reasoning for Diagnostic Shell
Yoshinobu Kitamura, Munehiko Sasajima, Mitsuru Ikeda and Riichiro Mizoguchi
'94 Japan/Korea Joint Conference on Expert Systems, Tokyo, Japan, pp.41-46,
March 1994.
An Investigation on Domain Ontology to Represent Functional Models
Munehiko Sasajima, Yoshionobu Kitamura, Mitsuru Ikeda, Shinji Yoshikawa, Akira
Endou and Riichiro Mizoguchi
The Eighth International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning about Physical Systems,
Nara, Japan, pp.224-233, June 1994.
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