Authors:
Sylvain Kubler
and
Kary Främling
Affiliation:
Aalto University, Finland
Keyword(s):
Product Lifecycle Information Management, Context-awareness, Internet of Things, Enterprise Information Systems, Quantum Lifecycle Management.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Cloud Computing
;
Collaboration and e-Services
;
Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation
;
Data Communication Networking
;
Data Engineering
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
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Health Information Systems
;
Integration/Interoperability
;
Internet Agents
;
Internet of Things
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Interoperability
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
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Mobile Software and Services
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
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Sensor Networks
;
Services Science
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Simulation and Modeling
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Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Software and Architectures
;
Software Engineering
;
Software Engineering Methods and Techniques
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Telecommunications
;
Ubiquitous Computing
;
Web Services
;
Wireless Information Networks and Systems
Abstract:
Product Lifecycle Information Management (PLIM) aims to enable all participants and decision-makers to have a clear, shared understanding of the product lifecycle, and to get feedback on product use conditions. Each product, whether as a physical or virtual product is designed to provide a range of services aimed at supporting daily activities of each product stakeholder (e.g., designers, manufacturers, distributors, users, repairers, or still recyclers). Such services are usually considered once, where parameters are fine-tuned once and for all. A future generation of services could attempt to self-adapt to the product context by discovering and exchanging helpful information with other devices and systems within its direct or indirect surrounding. The so-called Internet of Things (IoT) is a tremendous opportunity to support the development of such a new generation of services by taking advantage of powerful concepts such as context-awareness. Embedding context-awareness into the pr
oduct is a possible solution to learn about the product's context and to make appropriate decisions. However, today, this is not enough because of the large number of objects, systems, networks, and users comprising the IoT that require, more than ever before, standardized ways and interfaces to exchange all kinds of information between all kinds of devices. In an IoT context, this paper opens up new research directions for providing a new generation of PLIM services by investigating context-awareness. The combination of these two visions is referred to as CaPLIM (Context-awareness & PLIM), whose originality lies in the fact that it takes maximum advantage of IoT standards, and particularly of the recent Quantum Lifecycle Management (QLM) standard proposal.
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