COVID-19 has generated a lot of information in different formats, and one of them is in the ontology format. Also, there are previous ontologies from other disciplines that can help to analyze the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, due to the large quantity of COVID-19 information in the form of ontologies, approaches to ontology integration and interoperability could be beneficial. In this context, this research proposes a new ontology, called COVID-19 Pandemic ontology, which is the product of an ontological engineering process proposed in this research that allows the integration of several ontologies to cover all the aspects of this infectious disease. The ontological engineering process defines tasks of fusion, alignment, and linking for integrating the ontologies. The resulting pandemic ontology provides a simple repository for storing information about the COVID-19, reusing existing ontologies, to offer multiple views about the disease, including the social context. This ontology has been tested in different case studies to prove its capabilities to infer useful information about the COVID-19 pandemic.
Este artículo propone una ampliación de las capacidades del middleware MiSCi, al agregar una nueva capa denominada Datos Enlazados, para identificar, describir, conectar, relacionar y explotar los distintos datos generados por los usuarios y las aplicaciones de la ciudad inteligente usando el paradigma de datos enlazados. Esta nueva capa está compuestas por distintos agentes que permiten automatizar las etapas de especificación, modelado, generación, vinculación, publicación y explotación de los datos basados en MEDAWEDE. Dichos agentes pueden enriquecer ontologías existentes en MiSCi, generar modelos de conocimiento requeridos por los servicios de MiSCi, generar datos para construir modelos de conocimiento para MiSCi, y recomendar información en contextos de incertidumbre a través de una inferencia híbrida basada en lógica descriptiva/dialéctica. Además en este trabajo se especifica un caso de estudio, donde se muestran las capacidades del MiSCi para manejar distintas situaciones críticas, apoyado en la nueva capa de enlazado de datos.
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