Notice of RetractionResearch and application of functional ontology in household appliances domain

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To improve sharing and reusability of designing knowledge in domestic enterprises, a proposal of sharing of knowledge based on functional ontology was proposed. By using bases of knowledge of functional ontology, the mapping of structure-to-function has been realized. On basis of comprehensively understanding original functional model, through changing way of function achievement to obtain new functional model of product, an innovation of product was accomplished. Function decomposition tree describes a functional model about specific device, which includes functional designing principle. This paper designed a software platform based on functional decomposition tree, which can achieve retrieval of functional knowledge and draw out a function decomposition tree of refrigerator.