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Toward a comprehensive smart ecosystem ontology smart cities, smart buildings, smart life

  • Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
  • University of South Florida

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Abstract

This paper posits a smart ecosystem as a complex system with several interdependent components or subsystems: Smart city (or larger area), smart buildings, smart office, smart manufacturing, smart life. Understanding, design, and operation of such a system should be supported by a comprehensive ontology. The paper gives a short introduction to the structure of ontologies as consisting of a schema-level ontology - an elaborated entity-relationship model - and many entity-value-level ontologies - for each entity type a list or taxonomy of entity values or a specification how entity values should be formatted (such as the XML format for date and time). The paper outlines a process of developing a comprehensive ontology by collecting and integrating specifications from many sources and illustrates this process by building a very preliminary taxonomy of (smart) ecosystem functions from seven sources. Making ecosystems smart can improve the quality of life and contribute to more sustainable communities. All rights reserved.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIMCIC 2020 - 11th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics, Proceedings
EditorsRenata Maria Abrantes Baracho, Nagib C. Callaos, Suzanne Kay Lunsford, Belkis Sanchez, Michael Savoie
PublisherInternational Institute of Informatics and Systemics, IIIS
Pages89-95
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781950492251
StatePublished - 2020
Event11th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics, IMCIC 2020 - Orlando, United States
Duration: Mar 10 2020Mar 13 2020

Publication series

NameIMCIC 2020 - 11th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics, Proceedings
Volume1

Conference

Conference11th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics, IMCIC 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityOrlando
Period03/10/2003/13/20

Keywords

  • Building Information Modeling - BIM
  • Knowledge Organization System
  • Ontology
  • Smart Cities
  • Smart Life

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