Ontology based social life cycle assessment for product development

Shang, Z ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1459-9547, Wang, M, Su, D ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9541-8869, Liu, Q ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2680-4827 and Zhu, S, 2018. Ontology based social life cycle assessment for product development. Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 10 (11). ISSN 1687-8140

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Abstract

Social life cycle assessment is an important method to assess products’ social impacts throughout their life cycles. There are already some indicators and software to assist conducting social life cycle assessment. However, it is hard for users to share or reuse assessment results because of different application data structures. To resolve this problem, a knowledge-based social life cycle assessment–aided design method is developed in this research. With this method, all elements in the social life cycle assessment process are analyzed and represented as classes, their relationships are described as object properties, and the data structure is represented as data properties to construct an ontology system for social life cycle assessment. Based on the ontology, a social life cycle assessment–aided product development web is developed. According to the data property structure, a bidirectional mapping between database and ontology is realized using JENA and ontology-based data access, which enables the result data to be automatically inputted into ontology individuals. Thus, the result data can be accumulated, shared, and reused among users. A case study with a floor product as well as a user test is carried out to prove the feasibility and usability of the web. The ontology-based social life cycle assessment–aided design method provides users with a new high-efficiency approach, setting the foundation for the intellectualization of life cycle assessment.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Advances in Mechanical Engineering
Creators:	Shang, Z., Wang, M., Su, D., Liu, Q. and Zhu, S.
Publisher:	Sage
Date:	16 November 2018
Volume:	10
Number:	11
ISSN:	1687-8140
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1177/1687814018812277 DOI
Rights:	This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
Divisions:	Schools > School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	13 Dec 2018 13:37
Last Modified:	13 Dec 2018 13:37
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/35319

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