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Environmental Management Systems (EMS) are social-technical systems with a variety of final users and actors that cooperate with each other and interact with the system for decision-making, problems resolution, etc. The modelling of these systems using formal methods provides mechanisms and tools that guarantee the users a correct deployment and use of it. In this paper we showing environmental knowledge modelling accomplished in the SOLERES project, a spatio-temporal information system for environmental management, a cooperative system based on multi-agent architectures and intelligent agents. The system modelling uses UML for knowledge representation, and Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) perspective —based on the OMG classical Model-driven Architecture (MDA)— to create OWL/XML ontology automatically.
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Padilla, N., Iribarne, L., Asensio, J.A., Muñoz, F.J., Ayala, R. (2008). Modelling an Environmental Knowledge-Representation System. In: Lytras, M.D., Carroll, J.M., Damiani, E., Tennyson, R.D. (eds) Emerging Technologies and Information Systems for the Knowledge Society. WSKS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5288. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87781-3_8
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