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University of Almeria, SPAIN
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Athens, 24-27 September 2008
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WSKS, Athens 24-27 September 2008
Modelling an Environmental
Knowledge-Representation
System
Nicolás Padilla (1), Luis Iribarne (1), Jose A. Asensio (1), Francisco J.
Muñoz (1), Rosa Ayala (2)
(1) Applied Computing Group, University of Almeria, Spain
{npadilla, luis.iribarne, jacortes, francijo}@ual.es
(2) Environmental and Computers Group, University of Almeria, Spain
rmayala@ual.es

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Index
Motivations
SOLERES project
Ontology created
Future works

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Motivations
Application domain
Information systems for
Environmental Management
SOLERES System

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Motivations
Some of the design requirements of Environmental Management Systems:
 The complex relationships that happen in this environment,
 The underlying technology that is used,
 The organization of the work, and
 The requirements for the accomplishment of the tasks.
We need to have innovative quality information systems
to guarantee the success of the everyday activities

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Middleware logic layer
Presentation and interaction logic layer
Data logic layer
BusinessLogic
(Environmental)
Architecture Model

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notas
SOLERES framework
User Interface
Processes
User Interface
Processes HCI
Middleware
Data
Logics
Ontology
EPU EPU

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Ontology
 It is used in applications that need to
manage the information semantic.
= Ontology
Paso 1. UML class diagram
Paso 2. Model-transformation
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 We have created an Ontology to model Environmental
information linked to hierarchical ecological classification

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UML for knowledge modelling
U

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UML for knowledge modelling
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UML for knowledge modelling
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UML for knowledge modelling
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UML for knowledge modelling
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UML for knowledge modelling
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UML for knowledge modelling
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UML for knowledge modelling
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UML to OWL
But, How we are creating the ontology
with the UML classes diagram?
UML
classes
diagram
OWL
/XML
file
Model
tranformatio
n

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OWL/XML file (1/2)
...
<owl:Class rdf:ID = 'Ecological_classification'>
<rdfs:subClassOf>
<owl:Restriction>
<owl:onProperty rdf:resource = '#Ecological_classification.id'/>
<owl:cardinality rdf:datatype = 'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#integer'>1
</owl:cardinality>
</owl:Restriction>
</rdfs:subClassOf>
<rdfs:subClassOf>
<owl:Restriction>
<owl:onProperty rdf:resource = '#Ecological_classification.name'/>
<owl:cardinality rdf:datatype = 'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#integer'>1
</owl:cardinality >
</owl:Restriction>
</rdfs:subClassOf>
<rdfs:subClassOf>
<owl:Restriction>
<owl:onProperty rdf:resource = '#Ecological_classification.description'/>
<owl:cardinality rdf:datatype = 'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#integer'>1
</owl:cardinality >
</owl:Restriction>
</rdfs:subClassOf>
...

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OWL/XML file (2/2)
...
<rdfs:subClassOf>
<owl:Restriction>
<owl:onProperty rdf:resource =
'#Ecological_classification.ecological_classification_cartography_id'/>
<owl:cardinality rdf:datatype = 'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#integer'>1
</owl:cardinality >
</owl:Restriction>
</rdfs:subClassOf>
<rdfs:subClassOf>
<owl:Restriction>
<owl:onProperty rdf:resource = '#Ecological_classification.grid_id'/>
<owl:cardinality rdf:datatype = 'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#integer'>1
</owl:cardinality>
</owl:Restriction>
</rdfs:subClassOf>
<rdfs:subClassOf>
<owl:Restriction>
<owl:onProperty rdf:resource =
'#Ecological_classification.classification_technician_id'/>
<owl:minCardinality rdf:datatype= 'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#integer'>1
</owl:minCardinality>
</owl:Restriction>
</rdfs:subClassOf>
<rdfs:label>Ecological_classification</rdfs:label>
</owl:Class>

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Future work
• To integrate this ontology with another one for the satellite
images classification and extend it by using EML and GML.
• To connect the SOLERES presentation logic with the data
logic.

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Modelling an Environmental
Knowledge-Representation System
Thank you for your attention !
Contact: npadilla@ual.es
Applied Computing Group
University of Almeria, Spain
http://www.ual.es/acg