# Driving Digital Engineering Integration and Interoperability Through Semantic Integration of Models with Ontologies

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.10454 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2206.10454/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 1 of its 44 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 8 Jun 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Design Ontology Supporting Model-based Systems-engineering Formalisms](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.07627/) (2020)

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [AI- and Ontology-Based Enhancements to FMEA for Advanced Systems Engineering: Current Developments and Future Directions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.17743/) (2025)
- [AI4SE and SE4AI Exploration: A Decade Looking Back and Forward](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.19630/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Engineered solutions are becoming more complex and multi-disciplinary in nature. This evolution requires new techniques to enhance design and analysis tasks that incorporate data integration and interoperability across various engineering tool suites spanning multiple domains at different abstraction levels. Semantic Web Technologies (SWT) offer data integration and interoperability benefits as well as other opportunities to enhance reasoning across knowledge represented in multiple disparate models. This paper introduces the Digital Engineering Framework for Integration and Interoperability (DEFII) for incorporating SWT into engineering design and analysis tasks. The framework includes three notional interfaces for interacting with ontology-aligned data. It also introduces a novel Model Interface Specification Diagram (MISD) that provides a tool-agnostic model representation enabled by SWT that exposes data stored for use by external users through standards-based interfaces. Use of the framework results in a tool-agnostic authoritative source of truth spanning the entire project, system, or mission.