OWL-based emergency preplan ontology creation and application in knowledge sharing

The model presented in this paper is the main result of an on-going national science foundation project of china, called emergency-driven virtual organization (EDVO), which aims at integrating and scheduling heterogeneous, distributed resources from multi-domains, as well as sharing knowledge among them. Therefore, knowledge representation and sharing among the participating organizations become critical problems. A new construction method of owl ontology oriented to emergency preplan is proposed, after analyzing the requirement of emergency response systems for emergency preplan knowledge. Then, based on the emergency preplan ontology guided by the new construction method, we put forward a knowledge management and share framework oriented to virtual organization. It is shown in practice that the new method is able to guarantee the quality of the emergency preplan ontology and the create ontology provides formal knowledge representation to support knowledge sharing and collaborative work in different organizations in certain EDVO.