For 15 years, the SEMANTiCS conference has served as the leading European conference on Semantic Technologies and AI. The inaugural SEMANTiCS US will be held in Austin, TX. SEMANTiCS US will offer simultaneous tracks to engage any level of interest and experience. Throughout it all, the focus will be on delivering real world case studies…

APMS 2019 was a great success. More than 180 participants from 23 countries attended the conference and presented more than 160 technical papers. This conference set a new record for the number of presentations for an APMS Conference outside Europe. See you next year in Novi Sad, Serbia,  APMS 2020.

NIST Standards Requirements Workshop for Natural Language Analysis (May 21st, 2019) This event will bring personnel together to discuss the current and emerging capabilities and challenges with respect to collecting, storing, cleaning, parsing, and analyzing natural language documents for manufacturing operations. Dr. Ameri is attending the workshop as an invited speaker. He will presents INFONEER’s most…

The Industrial Ontology Foundry (IOF), SIRIUS (Centre for Scalable Data Access – University of Oslo) and DNV GL organized the International Industrial Ontologies Workshops in Oslo, Norway on 4 – 7 February 2019. The International Industrial Ontologies Workshops event on 4-5 February was targeted towards business professionals working with the implementation of industry ontologies, academics,…

Ramin Sabbagh, an INFONEER alumni, has won the 2018–2019 Graduate College Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award in the Mathematics, Physical Sciences, and Engineering. His thesis, “Semantic Text Analytics Technique for Classification of Manufacturing Suppliers“, was directed by Dr. Farhad Ameri, Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology. Ramin is currently a Ph.D. student in the Mechanical Engineering…

The paper titled “Skill Modeling for Digital Factories” was presented in the Industry 4.0- Digital Twin session at APMS conference in Seoul, South Korea in August 2018. The presenter was Damiano Arena from EPFL, Switzerland, who was also the lead author on this paper. Abstract:  In the past two decades, the use of ontologies has…

The paper titled “Supplier Clustering Based on Unstructured Manufacturing Capability Data” was presented at ASME IDETC/CIE 2018 conference in Quebec City on August 28th. Ramin Sabbagh was the primary author on this paper.  In this research, we successfully demonstrated how a hybrid approach based on document cluttering (K-means method) and topic modeling  (supported by LDA) can be…

The first IOF (Industrial Ontology Foundry) )working group workshop was held in Buffalo in July 2018. The objective was to develop a tentative roadmap for the next few months. Below is the summary of the developed roadmap: September 2018 – create mobi repository for IOF ontologies in OWL, and use COLORE as home for Common…

Farhad Ameri, an associate professor of manufacturing engineering and technology at Texas State University and an expert in design theory and ontology engineering, will deliver the keynote address for a UB workshop that seeks to advance the understanding of capabilities within information systems. “Capabilities: Human and Machine” will take place at 12:45 p.m. April 20…

Our paper title”Concept-Based Text Mining Technique for Semantic Classification of Manufacturing Suppliers” was featured on the ASTM Journal of Sustainable and Smart Manufacturing Systems. SSMS-CFP_featured-Papers[1]