Using ontology design patterns to represent sustainability indicator sets

Lida Ghahremanlou; Liam Magee; James A. Thom

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-54627-8_6

Using ontology design patterns to represent sustainability indicator sets

Lida Ghahremanlou, Liam Magee, James A. Thom

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Abstract

Sustainability indicators are increasingly being used to measure the economic, environmental and social properties of complex systems across different temporal and spatial scales. This motivates their inclusion in open distributed knowledge systems such as the Semantic Web. The diversity of such indicator sets provides considerable choice but also poses problems for those who need to measure and report. To address the modelling problems of indicator sets, we propose the use of Value Partition pattern to construct two design candidates: generic and specific. The generic design is more abstract, with fewer classes and properties, than the specific design. Documents describing two indicator systems - the Global Reporting Initiative and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - are used in the design of both candidate ontologies. We show the use of existing structural ontology design patterns can help to solve problems of ontology representations for modelling sustainability indicator sets.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	OWL
Subtitle of host publication	Experiences and Directions – Reasoner Evaluation - 13th International Workshop, OWLED 2016and 5th International Workshop, ORE 2016, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Maria Poveda-Villalon, Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, Mauro Dragoni
Publisher	Springer
Pages	70-81
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	9783319546261
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54627-8_6
State	Published - 2017
Externally published	Yes
Event	13th International Workshop on Experiences and Directions, OWLED 2016 and 5th International Workshop on OWL Reasoner Evaluation, ORE 2016 - Bologna, Italy Duration: Nov 19 2016 → Nov 20 2016

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	10161 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	13th International Workshop on Experiences and Directions, OWLED 2016 and 5th International Workshop on OWL Reasoner Evaluation, ORE 2016
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Bologna
Period	11/19/16 → 11/20/16

Keywords

Ontology design patterns
Sustainability indicator sets
Sustainability reporting
Value partition

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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Ghahremanlou, L., Magee, L., & Thom, J. A. (2017). Using ontology design patterns to represent sustainability indicator sets. In M. Poveda-Villalon, E. Jimenez-Ruiz, & M. Dragoni (Eds.), OWL: Experiences and Directions – Reasoner Evaluation - 13th International Workshop, OWLED 2016and 5th International Workshop, ORE 2016, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 70-81). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 10161 LNCS). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54627-8_6

Using ontology design patterns to represent sustainability indicator sets. / Ghahremanlou, Lida; Magee, Liam; Thom, James A.
OWL: Experiences and Directions – Reasoner Evaluation - 13th International Workshop, OWLED 2016and 5th International Workshop, ORE 2016, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Maria Poveda-Villalon; Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz; Mauro Dragoni. Springer, 2017. p. 70-81 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 10161 LNCS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Ghahremanlou, L, Magee, L & Thom, JA 2017, Using ontology design patterns to represent sustainability indicator sets. in M Poveda-Villalon, E Jimenez-Ruiz & M Dragoni (eds), OWL: Experiences and Directions – Reasoner Evaluation - 13th International Workshop, OWLED 2016and 5th International Workshop, ORE 2016, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 10161 LNCS, Springer, pp. 70-81, 13th International Workshop on Experiences and Directions, OWLED 2016 and 5th International Workshop on OWL Reasoner Evaluation, ORE 2016, Bologna, Italy, 11/19/16. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54627-8_6

Ghahremanlou L, Magee L, Thom JA. Using ontology design patterns to represent sustainability indicator sets. In Poveda-Villalon M, Jimenez-Ruiz E, Dragoni M, editors, OWL: Experiences and Directions – Reasoner Evaluation - 13th International Workshop, OWLED 2016and 5th International Workshop, ORE 2016, Revised Selected Papers. Springer. 2017. p. 70-81. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-54627-8_6

Ghahremanlou, Lida ; Magee, Liam ; Thom, James A. / Using ontology design patterns to represent sustainability indicator sets. OWL: Experiences and Directions – Reasoner Evaluation - 13th International Workshop, OWLED 2016and 5th International Workshop, ORE 2016, Revised Selected Papers. editor / Maria Poveda-Villalon ; Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz ; Mauro Dragoni. Springer, 2017. pp. 70-81 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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