Semantic Modeling for Supporting Planning Decision Making toward Smart Cities

Lan Zhang, Kaijian Liu

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Abstract

The world is urbanizing rapidly. By 2050, 68% of the world population will reside in urban areas, posing unprecedented pressures on the livability, equity, and sustainability of city systems. While the concept of smart city holds great promise to release these pressures, the planning decision making toward smart cities is challenging because of the enormous breadth of smart city dimensions. As a result, decision makers are often lost in where and how to make the best investments to address the most pressing issues at hand. In recent years, many smart city initiatives and programs have been implemented, which offers an important source of smart city knowledge for decision makers to learn from. To this end, this paper proposes a smart city ontology, as a shared conceptualization of smart city knowledge, to facilitate the sharing and reuse of the knowledge for informed planning decision making. At the highest level of abstraction, the ontology semantically models three key elements of smart city knowledge, including visions, challenges, and solutions. This paper focuses on presenting the proposed ontology and its evaluation. The evaluation results showed the promise of the proposed ontology in supporting smart city planning decision making.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationConstruction Research Congress 2022
Subtitle of host publicationComputer Applications, Automation, and Data Analytics - Selected Papers from Construction Research Congress 2022
EditorsFarrokh Jazizadeh, Tripp Shealy, Michael J. Garvin
Pages272-280
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9780784483961
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
EventConstruction Research Congress 2022: Computer Applications, Automation, and Data Analytics, CRC 2022 - Arlington, United States
Duration: 9 Mar 202212 Mar 2022

Publication series

NameConstruction Research Congress 2022: Computer Applications, Automation, and Data Analytics - Selected Papers from Construction Research Congress 2022
Volume2-B

Conference

ConferenceConstruction Research Congress 2022: Computer Applications, Automation, and Data Analytics, CRC 2022
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityArlington
Period9/03/2212/03/22

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