Abstract
Abstract. Spatial planning is a crucial area for balancing civilization development with environmental protection. Spatial planning has a multidisciplinary nature. It must take into account the dynamics of the processes, which could affect the integrity of the environmental system. That is why we need a new approach to modelling phenomena occurring in space. Such approach is offered by ontologies, based on Description Logic (DL) and related to inference systems. Ontology is a system for the knowledge representation, including conceptual scheme and based on this scheme representation of reality. Ontologies can be enriched with additional logical systems. The authors present a way of building domain ontologies for spatial planning, including the representation of spatio-temporal phenomena. Description Logic is supplemented by structures of temporal logic. As a result, the analysis for exploring the topological relations between spatial objects will be extended to include temporal relationships: coincidence, precedence and succession, cause and effect relationship. Spatio-temporal models with temporal logic structures, encoded in ontologies, could be a subject of inference process, performed by semantic reasoners (reasoner engines). Spatio-temporal representations are offered, by so-called upper ontologies, such as GFO, BFO, OCHRE and others. Temporal structures provided in such ontologies, are useful for the analysis of data obtained from environmental and development monitoring systems and for description and representation of historical phenomena. They allow creating the models and scenarios of expected spatial transformation. They will support analysis for spatial development design, decision-making in spatial planning and forecasting of environmental impact.
Highlights
The international and local communities have become increasingly aware of the need for responsible managing of the environment resources
Systems of formal description logics, temporal logic and probability, add to the Semantic Web, new opportunities, suitable to describe the dynamic phenomena occurring in the spatial planning and the environment
The interdisciplinary character of spatial planning problems results in the need for the modelling for a large number of classes and objects and a large number of their mutual relations
Summary
The international and local communities have become increasingly aware of the need for responsible managing of the environment resources. People recognize the problems and risks associated with uncontrolled spatial development. Society expects the spatial planner or environmental expert to prepare design solutions that take into account a credible analysis of the impact of spatial development environment. Planners, environmental professionals formulated their forecasts about the changes of the environment based on expertise in their field, their own experience and intuition. They receive today a set of design and forecasting tools for creating scenarios using objectively defined methodologies
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