An Ontology Pattern for Emergency Event Modeling
Wei Liu, Yue Tan, Ning Ding, Yujia Zhang, Zongtian Liu · 2016
Ontologies play an increasingly important role in emergency domain. They have become essential components of emergency response system. Development of emergency ontology is a laborious and difficult task because of the increasingly scale and complexity of the ontology. This paper proposes the concept of Event Ontology Pattern (EOP) and the development method of EOP, which is to capture formally reoccurring models and realize the reuse of existing emergency ontology vocabulary, and then facilitate emergency ontology development, help users avoid some of the most frequent modeling mistakes. An example of pollution emergencies ontology pattern is provided to demonstrate the creation of EOP and how to reuse EOP to develop new ontologies.