Toward a Comprehensive Smart Ecosystem Ontology – Smart Cities, Smart Buildings, Smart Life
Dagobert Soergel, Renata Maria Abrantes Baracho, Matthew T. Mullarkey
This paper posits a smart ecosystem as a complex system with
several interdependent components or subsystems: Natural
environment, smart city, smart buildings, smart office, smart
manufacturing, smart life. Understanding, design, and operation
of such a system can be supported by a comprehensive ontology.
We introduce the structure of ontologies as consisting of a
schema-level ontology, and entity-value-level ontologies, for
each entity type a taxonomy of entity values. One can
developing a comprehensive ontology by collecting and
integrating specifications from many sources; we illustrate 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. Full Text
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