An Ontology for Fire Building Evacuation

EasyChair Preprint 5055

Abstract

Guiding the building occupants under fire emergency to a safe place is an open research problem, and finding solutions to address the problem requires a perfect knowledge of the fire building evacuation domain. The use of ontologies to mod-el knowledge of a domain allows a common and shared understanding of that domain, between people and heterogeneous systems. This paper presents an ontology that aims to build a knowledge model to understand the referred domain better and help develop more capable building evacuation solutions and systems. The herein proposed ontology considers the different variables and actors involved in the fire building evacuation process. We followed the Methontology methodology for its developing, and we present all the development steps, from the specification to its implementation with the Protégé tool.

Keyphrases: Fire Building Evacuation, Fire emergency, Ontology, knowledge model, ontology development

@booklet{EasyChair:5055,
  author    = {Joaquim Neto and António Jorge Do Nascimento Morais and Ramiro Gonçalves and António Coelho},
  title     = {An Ontology for Fire Building Evacuation},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 5055},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2021}}