Risk Response for Municipal Solid Waste Crisis Using Ontology-Based Reasoning.

Qing Yang,Hui Zhou,Xingxing Liu,Zhichao Yang,Chen Zuo

doi:10.3390/ijerph17093312

Abstract

Many cities in the world are besieged by municipal solid waste (MSW). MSW not only pollutes the ecological environment but can even induce a series of public safety crises. Risk response for MSW needs novel changes. This paper innovatively adopts the ideas and methods of semantic web ontology to build an ontology-based reasoning system for MSW risk response. Through the integration of crisis information and case resources in the field of MSW, combined with the reasoning ability of Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL), a system of rule reasoning for risk transformation is constructed. Knowledge extraction and integration of MSW risk response can effectively excavate semantic correlation of crisis information along with key transformation points in the process of crisis evolution through rule reasoning. The results show that rule reasoning of transformation can effectively improve intelligent decision-making regarding MSW risk response.

Highlights

Rapid increase in population, urbanization, and economic development has led to significant increase in the production of municipal solid waste (MSW) annually [1]
The method of constructing an MSW risk response model based on ontology inference technology proposed in this paper aims to use the efficient information utilization of ontology technology to integrate case resources and other information relating to the MSW crisis
This paper focused on the increasingly serious problems of the MSW crisis and explored the risk response methods based on ontology inference technology from the perspective of crisis transformation

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Introduction

Urbanization, and economic development has led to significant increase in the production of municipal solid waste (MSW) annually [1]. About 4.3 billion urban residents will generate 1.42 kg/capita/day of MSW by 2025 [2]. In 2004, China surpassed the US as the world largest waste generator. It was predicted that in 2030, China will likely produce twice as much. A waste explosion in Manila in July 2000 killed more than 100 people and injured thousands [6]. A sensational “smelly” campaign broke out in Lebanon in July 2015, and the public’s protest campaign against pollution in the waste dump turned into a political event [7]. There have been dozens of mass incidents involving the MSW crisis in China

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