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Ontology Construction and Schema Merging Using an Application-Independent Ontology for Humanitarian Aid in Disaster Management

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Semantic Technology (JIST 2014)

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Humanitarian aid information, e.g., information on the occurrences of disaster situations, victims, shelters, resources, and facilities, is usually rapidly dynamic, ambiguous, and huge. A system of humanitarian aid often involves data items from multidisciplinary environments, some of which have similar meanings but appear structurally different in various data sources. To achieve semantic interoperability among humanitarian aid information systems to be exchanged meaningful information, this paper contributes a methodology for construction of an application-independent ontology and proposes a guideline for merging information from different databases through the application-independent ontology that helps people to integrate systems with minimal modification. We demonstrate how to develop an ontology for Humanitarian Aid for Refugee in Emergencies (HARE) as a common ontology for sharing and re-use the current knowledge bases. We discuss an approach to merging Relational Databases (RDBs) to heterogeneous hierarchical ontology.

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  1. School of Information, Computer, and Communication Technology, Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand

    Pasinee Apisakmontri & Ekawit Nantajeewarawat

  2. National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Bangkok, Thailand

    Marut Buranarach

  3. School of Knowledge Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Japan

    Pasinee Apisakmontri & Mitsuru Ikeda

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  2. Keio University Fac. of Science & Technology, Yokohama, Japan

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  3. Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

    Jeff Z. Pan

  4. Asian University, Chonburi, Thailand

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Apisakmontri, P., Nantajeewarawat, E., Buranarach, M., Ikeda, M. (2015). Ontology Construction and Schema Merging Using an Application-Independent Ontology for Humanitarian Aid in Disaster Management. In: Supnithi, T., Yamaguchi, T., Pan, J., Wuwongse, V., Buranarach, M. (eds) Semantic Technology. JIST 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8943. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15615-6_21

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