The Design and Implementation of Ontology and Rules Based Knowledge Base for Transportation

: The traditional transportation information inquiry mainly uses key words based on the text, and the service the inquiry system provided is onefold and only aims at one transporting means. In addition, the inquiry system lacks the comprehensive transportation inquiry combining water, land and air traffic information; also it lacks semantic level inquiry, bringing users lots of inconvenience. In view of the above questions, we proposed establishing a knowledge base of transportation information based on the OWL ontologies and SWRL rules, which can express the rich semantic knowledge of three dimension transporting means (water, land and air) in formalization. Using the ontologies through kinds, properties, instances and classifications ontologies can express structure knowledge, support knowledge automatic sorting and the instance recognition, so as to provide formal semantics for the description of many concepts involved in the transportation domain and relations between these concept...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: CSSE
• Authors: Gang Cheng, Qingyun Du, Hongli Ma
• Keywords: CSSE 2008, Ontologies, Rich Semantic Knowledge, Software Engineering, Transportation Information Inquiry