Knowledge Management And Application For Jewelry Design

Research shows that 70 percent of the design works nowadays originated from the modification of the older ones. So it has become more and more important for enterprise to arrange the knowledge effectively. Knowledge management is a new mode which is built to meet the requirements of the Knowledge Economical Age. It provides approaches for knowledge flowing in the enterprise through identifying,acquiring,storing,using and sharing the knowledge effectively. The enterprise can use sharing knowledge to improve the capability of innovation and responsing to the market, so as to promote its core competitive power and to occupy a leading position in the fierce market competition.Supported by the major project of Science and Technology Plan of Zhejiang Province—Research on the Integration Management Platform of Ornaments Innovation Design based on Knowledge and its Application in Ornament Industry, the thesis analyzes the knowledge demand of the jewelry design according to the domain feature. Then the design knowledge is classified and different method for knowledge representation is given. After that, proper reasoning mode and maintenance method for each class is proposed though the investigation of an application example. At last the prototype system of knowledge management is designed and actualized. In conclusion, this paper is organized as follows.In chapter one the research background of the thesis is presented, then the development status of jewelry industry and the challenges in its development are analyzed, which elicit the requirement of knowledge management. Then the concept, research status and methods of knowledge management are introduced, the Ontology application in this field is emphatically analyzed. Finally, the intention, significance and main contents of the research are illuminated.In chapter two the design process of jewelry and its characteristics are firstly analyzed, according to which the knowledge required in the process is summarized. Then the knowledge is decomposed into different types and at last the system structure for jewelry design knowledge is proposed.In chapter three different kinds of methods for knowledge representation are proposed, aiming at the jewelry-design knowledge and its characteristics. In this section the paper will emphatically introduce the Ontology method. Then proper reasoning mode is used for each class of the knowledge.Based on the Knowledge Representation and Inference, in chapter four we apply it to an instance. In This section the hardware and software environment and the using process of protege are introduce. Then the knowledge maintenance of the system is explained. At last an instance of the service condition about the knowledge in the system is showed.In the last chapter the major research achievement of our research is summarized and the shortages of this paper is discussed. At last we prospect for the future research work.