OUR APPROACH
Reference architecture
SmartEM focuses on developing a reference architecture for engineering model spaces, which manage surrogate models
generated from AI / ML-based methods. Use-case specific model spaces will enable the deployment of surrogates in a
variety of technical applications. SmartEM will adapt or define taxonomies on multiple levels of the reference
architecture: IP concepts, interfaces, engineering domains, modeling disciplines, data qualification, and finally
surrogate modeling. SmartEM will combine methods from data-driven predictive modeling with inductive transfer and
concept learning and enable automated selection of learning algorithms and pre-trained models according to problem
specific metadata.
The reference architecture will provide ontologies which define relations between the classes of each of the above
mentioned taxonomies. Their use for domain specific sets of meta-data enables model interoperability and semantic
search. SmartEM will also address methods for IP management and model governance for the exploitation of
surrogates’ added-value and contribute to standards and data-space communities.


























International project coordinator - Olga Kattan - Phillips Electronics Nederland BV0
Netherlands project coordinator - Roelof Hamberg - Canon Production Printing Netherlands B.V.
Belgium project coordinator - Dr. Greet Bilsen - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Türkiye project coordinator - Murat Sağlam - Alpata Technology
German subgroup leader and project anticipant - Klaus Wolf - Fraunhofer SCAI