The construction industry is one of the most dangerous industries in terms of safety performance, with practitioners and experts actively developing various solutions to reduce accident frequency and severity. However, accident information is collect...
Big data management is no longer an issue for large enterprises only; it has also become a challenge for small and middle-sized enterprises, too. Today, enterprises have to handle business data and processes of increasing complexity that are almost e...
Crisis management in smart cities demands coherent, interoperable, and reusable semantic models to represent complex systems, their risks, crisis situations, interdependencies, and decision-making processes across all lifecycle phases, i.e., preventi...
Knowledge management in a structured system is a complicated task that requires common, standardized methods that are acceptable to all actors in a system. Ontology, in this regard, is a primary element and plays a central role in knowledge managemen...
In this paper, we develop an ontology-based framework for energy management in buildings. We divide the functional architecture of a building energy management system into three interconnected modules that include building management system (BMS), be...
Knowledge management in construction health and safety is an intensive process involving different stakeholders. However, this domain’s information is still fragmented and stored in various disordered formats that require systematic structure f...
In this piece of research, we have presented an approach to populate Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) ontology from existing worksheets prepared by experts. FMEA is a commonly used method for risk assessment in any organization. This method is...
To address the data management limitations of traditional ontology models in dynamic industrial settings, this study introduces the Fractal Fuzzy Ontology Modeling (FFOM) framework, a novel methodology for optimizing data management, integration, and...
To address the challenges surrounding information sharing and low efficiency during the engineering quality risk management process, this paper constructs a digital process for engineering quality risk management. Engineering quality risk factors wer...
The extensive application of building information modeling (BIM) technology has brought opportunities and challenges to safety risk management in the field of prefabricated building construction. It is of great significance to provide timely informat...
This paper addresses a persistent divide in water governance: critical frameworks reveal power dynamics and ontological diversity but lack operational guidance, while operational frameworks prioritize technical management at the expense of ontologica...
Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease characterized by severe inflammation of the bronchial mucosa. Allergic asthma is the most common form of this health issue. Asthma is classified into allergic and non-allergic asthma, and it can be triggered by...
Timely and accurate interpretation of Notices to Air Missions (NOTAMs) is essential for effective aeronautical information management (AIM). Although NOTAMs follow a standardized format, their abbreviated textual content and heterogeneous operational...
The massive urban social management data with geographical coordinates from the inspectors, volunteers, and citizens of the city are a new source of spatio-temporal data, which can be used for the data mining of city management and the evolution of h...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are an enabling technology of context-aware systems. The Internet of Things (IoT), which has attracted much attention in recent years, is an emerging paradigm where everyday objects and spaces are made context-aware an...
This study presents the development of an ontology-based customisation management system (Onto-CMS) for driver–vehicle interfaces (DVIs) in highly automated vehicles (HAVs). The objective of the proposed system is to enhance safety, minimise th...
Construction projects are becoming increasingly complex due to their dynamic nature, the integration of multiple disciplines, and the need for strategic alignment between organizational processes and project management. However, traditional project m...
The operation targets of the distribution management system (DMS) have become increasingly diverse and complex. This complexity stems from the integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) to achieve carbon neutrality, alongside the introduction...
In addition to traditional viewing media, metadata that record the physical space from multiple perspectives will become extremely important in realizing interactive applications such as Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR). This paper pro...
Ontologies are essential for the management and integration of heterogeneous datasets. This paper presents OntoBuilder, an advanced tool that leverages the structural capabilities of semantic labeled property graphs (SLPGs) in strict alignment with s...
For today’s global value chains, seaports and their operations are indispensable components. In many cases, the cargo handling takes place in close proximity to residential and/or environmentally sensitive areas. Furthermore, seaports are often...
The AECO (Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operation) sector is highly complex, involving multidisciplinary collaboration, extensive data management, and significant financial investments. Decisions in early phases significantly impact op...
The construction industry produces enormous amounts of information, relying on building information modeling (BIM). However, due to interoperability issues, valuable information is not being used properly. Ontology offers a solution to this interoper...
Next-generation gaseous fuel infrastructure for low- and zero-carbon gaseous fuels (hydrogen, ammonia, and hydrogen-blended natural gas) is planned to expand, but most announced hydrogen pipeline and storage projects have not reached a final investme...
Knowledge of the construction process plays a decisive role in guiding construction and thus affects the quality of buildings. However, the integration and relevance of information in the traditional process file are poor, and it is easy to ignore th...
The rapid growth of digital transformation (Dx) initiatives across sectors has created an urgent need for structured, scalable, and accurate management of project knowledge. Without effective organization, valuable insights from Dx projects remain fr...
Cultural Heritage (CH) (In the context of this paper, we consider cultural heritage built tangible cultural heritage, such as buildings or monuments.) is an important source of identity for humankind and needs to be conserved for future generations....
The railway industry forecasts growth in passenger and freight traffic over the next 30 years. This places additional demands on rolling stock depot facilities, many of which were designed and built before the modern age of information technology. Th...
As an important data source, the Building Information Model (BIM) plays an important role in modern building safety management. Numerous studies have closely examined automatic compliance inspections for building safety and the safety management of d...
With the increasing complexity of cyberthreats, it is necessary to have tools to understand the changing context in real-time. This document will present architecture and a prototype designed to model the risk of administrative domains, exemplifying...
This study provides a novel approach to the field of prognostics and health management (PHM) in nanotechnology: multi-agent systems integrated with ontology-based knowledge representation and Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL). This framework has agen...
Business traveling is attracting growing attention due to the expansion of international markets. This fact calls for an increasing attention of the tourism sector toward the needs of business travellers, who often require services that are different...
As researchers around the globe develop applications for the use of Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) in the Air Traffic Management (ATM) domain, Air Traffic Control (ATC) language ontologies will play a critical role in enabling...
1 June 2020
Early decision-making and the prevention of construction safety risks are very important for the safety, quality, and cost of construction projects. In the field of construction safety risk management, in the face of a loose, chaotic, and huge inform...
In the current practice, an essential element of safety management systems, Job Hazard Analysis (JHA), is performed manually, relying on the safety personnel’s experiential knowledge and observations. This research was conducted to create a new...
Nowadays, the increasing demand of water for electricity production, agricultural and industrial uses are directly affecting the reduction of available quality water for human consumption in the world. Efficient and sustainable maintenance of water r...
The success of disaster management efforts demands meaningful integration of data that is geographically dispersed and owned by stakeholders in various sectors. However, the difficulty in finding, accessing and reusing interoperable vocabularies to o...
Urban biodiversity is essential for sustainable cities, as it helps address the challenges of environmental degradation, ecosystem loss, species decline, and increased vulnerability to climate hazards, which negatively affect human health and well-be...
Smart grids of the future will create and provide huge data volumes, which are subject to FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) data management solutions when used within the scientific domain and for operation. FAIR Digital Object...
Library organizations have enthusiastically undertaken semantic web initiatives and in particular the data publishing as linked data. Nevertheless, different surveys report the experimental nature of initiatives and the consumer difficulty in re-usin...
Crop disease management in smart agriculture involves applying and using new technologies to reduce the impact of diseases on the quality of products. Coffee rust is a disease that factors such as poor agronomic management activities and climate cond...
Cloud Service Level Agreements (SLAs) define security obligations, remediation commitments, and compliance requirements between cloud service providers and customers. SLAs define the performance standards and expectations between service providers an...
Industry Foundation Classes (IFCs), as the most recognized data schema for Building Information Modeling (BIM), are increasingly combined with ontology to facilitate data interoperability across the whole lifecycle in the Architecture, Engineering, C...
16 November 2021
While drugs and related products have profoundly changed the lives of people around the world, ongoing challenges remain, including inappropriate use of a drug product. Inappropriate uses can be explained in part by ambiguous or incomplete informatio...
Knowledge of software security is highly complex since it is quite context-specific and can be applied in diverse ways. To secure software development, software developers require not only knowledge about general security concepts but also about the...
Traditional claim management relies heavily on manual analysis and expert judgment, resulting in inefficiencies, information omissions, and heightened risks of disputes. To address these challenges, this paper constructs a domain-specific ontology fo...
The increasing interconnections of city services, the explosion of available urban data, and the need for multidisciplinary analysis and decision making for city sustainability require new technological solutions to cope with such complexity. Ontolog...
Extensive research in the field of construction safety has predominantly focused on identifying the causes and impacts of construction accidents, evaluating safety plans, assessing the effectiveness of safety education materials, and analyzing releva...
The technology of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) becomes one of the most important research applications in the area of computer network security. The overall functionality of SIEM systems depends largely on the quality of solutions...
This paper describes our conceptual framework of closed-loop lifecycle information sharing for product-service in the Internet of Things (IoT). The framework is based on the ontology model of product-service and a type of IoT message standard, Open M...
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