Ontologies for emergency response: Effect-based assessment as the main ontological commitment

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 240 CCIS, Issue , 2011, Pages 93-104

  Santos, Leopoldo ^a   Sicilia, Miguel Angel ^b   Padrino, Sergio ^b  

^a Technical School   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

critical infrastructures; Emergency events; ontologies; OWL; reasoning; situation awareness

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EVENTS; COMPLEX MODEL; EMERGENCY EVENTS; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; EMERGENCY RESPONSE SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGICAL COMMITMENT; OWL; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; REASONING; SITUATION AWARENESS;

CIVIL DEFENSE; COORDINATION REACTIONS; CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES; DISASTERS; METADATA; RATING; RISK MANAGEMENT; SEMANTICS; ONTOLOGY;

ONTOLOGY; EMERGENCY SERVICES;

EID: 80054077760     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-24731-6_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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