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Supporting Domain Ontology through a Metamodel: A Disaster Management Case Study

Supporting Domain Ontology through a Metamodel: A Disaster Management Case Study

Siti Hajar Othman
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 19
ISBN13: 9781466647077|ISBN10: 1466647078|EISBN13: 9781466647084
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4707-7.ch050
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Othman, Siti Hajar. "Supporting Domain Ontology through a Metamodel: A Disaster Management Case Study." Crisis Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2014, pp. 1019-1037. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4707-7.ch050

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Othman, S. H. (2014). Supporting Domain Ontology through a Metamodel: A Disaster Management Case Study. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Crisis Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 1019-1037). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4707-7.ch050

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Othman, Siti Hajar. "Supporting Domain Ontology through a Metamodel: A Disaster Management Case Study." In Crisis Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 1019-1037. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4707-7.ch050

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Abstract

A metamodel is a model that has the ability to create the languages of many domain models. Domain models are conceptual models of a domain under study and contain all the entities, attributes, relationships, and constraints of the domain. As the artifact of a metamodeling technique, a metamodel could generalize most of the concepts used in existing domain models by unifying the views and structuring the language of the domain. In relation to ontology, the creation of a metamodel could assist in understanding, structuring, and analyzing the ontology. Other than its potential to engineer new ontology and re-engineer existing ontology, a metamodel can also be used to facilitate communication among communities regarding the ontology. The authors present how a metamodel can structure and manage knowledge of a domain it models. Through the Disaster Management Metamodel, they create a language for the disaster management domain.

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