Emergency plan process ontology and its application

An emergency plan is the substantial foundation to deal with emergency incident, and emergency plan process is a guide to action of emergency response. However, the unambiguous and uniform expression of emergency plan process is a crucial challenge. Since ontology is becoming a recognized vehicle for knowledge reuse, knowledge sharing and modeling, emergency plan process ontology(EPPOnto) is designed by using ABC model as upper ontology in order to solve these problems. EPPOnto can provide the share knowledge in semantics to achieve the cooperation and reuse between people and the different systems. In this paper, EPPOnto is respectively described in five-tuple involves the concepts, relations, functions, axioms and instances. Finally, the experiment of an emergency plan process is completed to validate EPPOnto.