A decision support system for urban infrastructure inter-asset management employing domain ontologies and qualitative uncertainty-based reasoning

Lijun Wei, Heshan Du, Quratul-ain Mahesar, Kareem Al Ammari, Derek R. Magee, Barry Clarke, Vania Dimitrova, David Gunn, David Entwisle, Helen Reeves, Anthony G. Cohn

Abstract: Highlights•A Decision Support System for urban infrastructure management is presented.•The system handles the asset dependencies using a set of domain ontologies and rules.•The system models both the uncertainty and incompleteness of data and knowledge.•A web-based prototype has been developed and demonstrated to potential users.