Engineering a physical system method and system

A computer system comprising:

• a processor configured to:
• engineer a physical system, the processor being configured to engineer the physical system comprising the processor being configured to:
• provide a set of first engineering artifacts and a set of second engineering artifacts of engineering information of the physical system;
• determine a first annotation tree comprising first nodes representing the set of first engineering artifacts and determining a second annotation tree comprising second nodes representing the set of second engineering artifacts;
• provide at least one ontology relating to the engineering information;
• determine a respective similarity value of the respective first node and the respective second node using the respective ontology, wherein the respective similarity value depends on a respective distance between the respective first node and the respective second node in the respective ontology;
• determine at least one of the first nodes that is related to at least one of the second nodes using the respective similarity value;
• and
• generate a respective connector linking the respective first engineering artifact corresponding to the respective first node with the respective second engineering artifact corresponding to the related, respective second node.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores instructions executable by one or more processors to engineer a physical system, the instructions comprising:

• providing a set of first engineering artifacts and a set of second engineering artifacts of engineering information of the physical system;
• determining a first annotation tree comprising first nodes representing the set of first engineering artifacts and determining a second annotation tree comprising second nodes representing the set of second engineering artifacts;
• providing at least one ontology relating to the engineering information;
• determining a respective similarity value of the respective first node and the respective second node using the respective ontology, wherein the respective similarity value depends on a respective distance between the respective first node and the respective second node in the respective ontology;
• determining at least one of the first nodes that is related to at least one of the second nodes using the respective similarity value;
• and
• generating a respective connector linking the respective first engineering artifact corresponding to the respective first node with the respective second engineering artifact corresponding to the related, respective second node.