An ontology-based knowledge management system for flow and water quality modeling

Kwok Wing Chau

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Abstract

Currently, the numerical simulation of flow and/or water quality becomes more and more sophisticated. There arises a demand on the integration of recent knowledge management (KM), artificial intelligence technology with the conventional hydraulic algorithmic models in order to assist novice application users in selection and manipulation of various mathematical tools. In this paper, an ontology-based KM system (KMS) is presented, which employs a three-stage life cycle for the ontology design and a Java/XML-based scheme for automatically generating knowledge search components. The prototype KMS on flow and water quality is addressed to simulate human expertise during the problem solving by incorporating artificial intelligence and coupling various descriptive knowledge, procedural knowledge and reasoning knowledge involved in the coastal hydraulic and transport processes. The ontology is divided into information ontology and domain ontology in order to realize the objective of semantic match for knowledge search. The architecture, the development and the implementation of the prototype system are described in details. Both forward chaining and backward chaining are used collectively during the inference process. In order to demonstrate the application of the prototype KMS, a case study is presented.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)172-181
Number of pages10
JournalAdvances in Engineering Software
Volume38
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2007

Keywords

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Flow and water quality modeling
  • Knowledge management system
  • Ontology-based

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • General Engineering

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