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International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering, and Knowledge Management

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Knowledge and Decision Support for Hazard Awareness

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In regard to hazards, either produced by natural causes or by human activities, an important issue today is awareness, which is essential not only for the fast response of emergency personnel, but also for people concerned about the risks. The approach described in this chapter is based on making specialists’ knowledge accessible to the large public. This was first realized though a selection of fundamental concepts about radiological and nuclear vulnerabilities and their organization in an ontology, used for defining a website. Secondly, the rules followed for making decisions in case of hazardous events were extracted from the public reports elaborated by authorities in atomic energy, were formalized, and were implemented into a software simulator. Thirdly, the processes followed for diverse types of risks were represented graphically, to create awareness about the measurements to be taken, the actions recommended in each situation, and their timing.

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Ionita, A.D., Olteanu, A., Pietraru, R.N. (2020). Knowledge and Decision Support for Hazard Awareness. In: Fred, A., Salgado, A., Aveiro, D., Dietz, J., Bernardino, J., Filipe, J. (eds) Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. IC3K 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1297. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66196-0_16

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