AI中文摘要
数字孪生(DTs)代表物理系统、资产或过程的数字对应物,称为实际孪生(AT)。DTs 集成异构数据、模型和语义技术,以支持监控、模拟、预测和优化,从而在保持与 AT 动态和准确反映的同时实现有信息的决策。一个关键挑战是对齐异构模型,这可能导致语义不匹配、不一致性和同步问题。现有方法依赖于静态映射和手动更新,通常不够灵活且容易出错。在本研究中,我们通过引入语义 grounding 管道来解决多层 DT 的异构性问题,使不同抽象层之间实现一致且可靠的互操作性。我们有三个贡献。首先,我们设计并实现了多层 DT 使用灵活的建模框架,以组织数据、模型和元模型层。其次,我们将 DT 元模型语义提升为 RDF 图以实现统一表示。最后,我们提出了一种基于图的对齐方法(SSM-OM),该方法利用语义嵌入、词汇相似性和大型语言模型(LLM)推理来准确建立和验证提升的元模型与本体之间的对应关系。通过 RDF 测试、DT 使用案例和本体对齐评估倡议(OAEI)基准测试,我们验证了正确性、互操作性、跨层可追溯性、领域适用性和一般经验性能,展示了多层 DT 的语义一致性。
英文摘要
Digital Twins (DTs) represent digital counterparts of physical systems, assets, or processes, referred to as the actual twin (AT). DTs integrate heterogeneous data, models, and semantic technologies to support monitoring, simulation, prediction, and optimization, enabling informed decision-making while maintaining a dynamic and accurate reflection of the AT. A key challenge is aligning heterogeneous models, which can cause semantic mismatches, inconsistencies, and synchronization issues. Existing approaches relying on static mappings and manual updates are often inflexible and error-prone. In this study, we address heterogeneity challenge in multi-layered DT, by introducing semantic grounding pipeline for multi-layered DTs that enables consistent and reliable interoperability between abstraction layers. We make three contributions. First, we design and implement multi-layered DT using flexible modelling framework, to organize data, model and metamodel layers. Second, we semantically lift DT metamodel to RDF graph for unified representation. Finally, we present a graph-based alignment approach (SSM-OM), which leverages semantic embeddings, lexical similarity, and large language model (LLM) reasoning to accurately establish and validate correspondences between the lifted metamodel and ontology. We validate correctness, interoperability, cross-layer traceability, domain applicability and general empirical performance through RDF tests, a DT usecase, and ontology alignment evaluation initiative (OAEI) benchmarks, demonstrating semantic consistency in multi-layered DT.