On the use of ontology-based integration architecture in Cemaden’s Natural Disaster Observational Network

• André A. S. Ivo CEMADEN / INPE
• Sheila G. Ribeiro INPE
• Fatima Mattiello-Francisco INPE
• Rogério Ishibashi CEMADEN

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/ladc.2021.18532

Resumo

This paper describes a study performed in the Brazilian governmental center, named Cemaden, responsible to monitor natural disasters and sending alerts to the vulnerable community involved. The target of our study is the complex architecture of Cemaden’s Observational Network. It comprises constituent systems (CS) provided by other partners organisms, which operation and maintenance are out of Cemaden con trolling. The correct functioning of those heterogeneous CSs represents a major challenge in this type of system. Thus the comprehension of dependability issues regarding the information flow in the integration of the CSs is essential. Our study compares the current integration architecture based on syntax rules with the use of an ontology-based integration. The advantages of the proposed architecture are discussed in a case study.

Palavras-chave: dependability, ontology, natural disaster

Referências

CEMADEN. (2011) Cemaden creation history. [Online]. Available: http://www.cemaden.gov.br/historico-da-criacao-do-cemaden/.

L. D. R. LONDE, L. G. MOURA, M. P. COUTINHO, V. MARCHEZINI, and E. SORIANO, “Vulnerability, health and disasters in São Paulo coast (Brazil): challenges for a sustainable development,” Ambiente & Sociedade, vol. 21, 00 2018.

V. Marchezini, Dos desastres da natureza à natureza dos desastres. RiMa Editora, 11 2009, pp. 48–57.

“Decreto nº 7.513 de 1º de julho de 2011: altera o decreto n. 5886 de 6 de setembro de 2006, que aprova a estrutura regional e o quadro demonstrativo dos cargos em comissão e das funções gratificadas do ministério da ciência e tecnologia e dispõe sobre o remanejamento de cargos em comissão.” BRASIL. PRESIDÊNCIA DA REPÚBLICA, 2011. [Online]. Available: http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2011-2014/2011/decreto/d7513.htm.

CPRM. (2020) Mapa on-line. [Online]. Available: https://geoportal.cprm.gov.br/desastres/.

S. Izza, L. Vincent, and P. Burlat, “Ontology-based approach for application integration,” in 2005 1st Interoperability of Enterprise Software and Applications, 02 2005.

R. F. Calhau and R. d. A. Falbo, “An ontology-based approach for semantic integration,” in 2010 14th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, 2010, pp. 111–120.

M. Uschold and M. Grüninger, “Ontologies: Principles, methods and applications,” The Knowledge Engineering Review, vol. 11, 01 1996.