Semantic interoperability of GIS and MCDA tools for environmental assessment and decision making

Jelokhani-Niaraki, Mohammadreza,Sadeghi-Niaraki, Abolghasem,Choi, Soo-Mi Elsevier 2018 Environmental modelling & software Vol.100 No.-

<P><B>Abstract</B></P> <P>A promising approach to environmental assessment and decision making analyses is based on integrating Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) and GIS tools. Integration of GIS and MCDA tools can be potentially achieved through interoperability, where these tools can exchange relevant information to tackle a particular environmental problem. However, the problem of semantic heterogeneity caused by different meanings of data, terminologies, and models used in GIS and MCDA has been recognized as an obstacle in the interoperability of these tools. Conventionally, exchange of data between GIS and MCDA systems for environmental applications relies on prior knowledge to mediate meanings between the two components. This paper proposes an ontology-enabled framework for semantic interoperability of GIS and MCDA web services. In particular, this study has made significant contribution to environmental decision making by providing an interoperable framework to exchange environmental data with intended and unambiguous meanings between GIS and MCDA services.</P> <P><B>Highlights</B></P> <P> <UL> <LI> This paper proposes an ontology-enabled framework for semantic interoperability of GIS and MCDA components. </LI> <LI> It shifts the paradigm of environmental decision support systems from application-specific to a semantic interoperable framework. </LI> <LI> The approach uses a set of ontologies to address the challenges of semantic interoperability between GIS and MCDA tools. </LI> </UL> </P>

Design and implementation of a GIS-based accident management system using tracking technique

Niaraki Abolghasem Sadeghi,Kim Kye-Hyun Korea Spatial Information System Society 2006 한국공간정보시스템학회 논문지 Vol.8 No.2

This paper addresses a GIS (Geographic Information System) based system in order to reduce the rate of public transportation accidents occurring in Iranian roads network. Over the years, the road accidents are a major issue throughout the world. Today, particular consideration is given to those technologies which can lead to diminish on the number of critical incidents. One of the main factors resulting in accidents and fatalities rates growth is the speed violation of buses in Iranian road network. The conventional speed controlling approach in Iran based on the Tachograph which records vehicle's speed, time, and stoppage in the mechanical processing has many problems. Hence, this research is intended to design and implement a GIS-based system to manage road accident of Bus transportation system using offline tracking system. This was accomplished using a GIS-based technique that encompasses three steps. The first step is developing a GIS-based accident system. The second step includes designing and applying a tracking system inside 90 buses for recording Bus information for speed controlling. Lastly, by using mentioned system in police center, the illegal drivers' punishment would be considered properly. Overall, this system has been successfully applied in this work. Therefore, the police and transportation office are able to control and make policy to diminish the number of accident. It is anticipated that online tracking system through the Web GIS would be utilized In this system in the near future.

Ontology based personalized route planning system using a multi-criteria decision making approach

Niaraki, Abolghasem Sadeghi,Kim, Kyehyun Elsevier 2009 expert systems with applications Vol.36 No.2

<P><B>Abstract</B></P> <P>This study presents a generic ontology-based architecture using a multi-criteria decision making technique to design a personalized route planning system. The real world has become too complex to implement entirely within an information system such as geographic information system (GIS). A route planning technique is an essential geo-related decision support tool, especially in intelligent transportation systems (ITS). In ubiquitous GIS environments, personalization can be accomplished through a user’s preferences stored on mobile appliances. In this manner, personalized and user-centric route planning services using semantic technologies and ontologies perceive user and context models to satisfy user demands and predict their requirements. In the past few years, several studies have been carried out regarding personalized services. However, the existing route finding algorithms suffer from a number of major difficulties, mainly owing to insufficient criteria modeling for a personalized system. Thus, the present study investigates how a user-centric route planning system can be implemented. In order to address this research issue, an ontology-based knowledge modelling technique using an analytic hierarchical process (AHP) is proposed. This technique can facilitate determination of the choice of criteria used for applying an impedance function in the route finding algorithm. From another perspective, AHP explicitly deals with a hierarchy structure and is essentially a theory of measurement and decision making methodology used for combining or synthesizing quantitative as well as qualitative criteria. User-centric results on real data illustrate the strengths of the present approach. It is anticipated that this new technique can be applied to develop new graph algorithms based on semantic web technology and can be used with new semantic graph structures.</P>

At-Speed Wordy-R-CRESTA Optimal Analyzer to Repair Word-Oriented Memories

Rahebeh Niaraki Asli,Shahin Khodadadi,Payam Habiby 보안공학연구지원센터 2013 International Journal of Hybrid Information Techno Vol.6 No.6

An Ontology-Based GIS for Genomic Data Management of Rumen Microbes

Jelokhani-Niaraki, Saber,Tahmoorespur, Mojtaba,Minuchehr, Zarrin,Nassiri, Mohammad Reza Korea Genome Organization 2015 Genomics & informatics Vol.13 No.1

During recent years, there has been exponential growth in biological information. With the emergence of large datasets in biology, life scientists are encountering bottlenecks in handling the biological data. This study presents an integrated geographic information system (GIS)-ontology application for handling microbial genome data. The application uses a linear referencing technique as one of the GIS functionalities to represent genes as linear events on the genome layer, where users can define/change the attributes of genes in an event table and interactively see the gene events on a genome layer. Our application adopted ontology to portray and store genomic data in a semantic framework, which facilitates data-sharing among biology domains, applications, and experts. The application was developed in two steps. In the first step, the genome annotated data were prepared and stored in a MySQL database. The second step involved the connection of the database to both ArcGIS and $Prot{\acute{e}}g{\acute{e}}$ as the GIS engine and ontology platform, respectively. We have designed this application specifically to manage the genome-annotated data of rumen microbial populations. Such a GIS-ontology application offers powerful capabilities for visualizing, managing, reusing, sharing, and querying genome-related data.

An Ontology-Based GIS for Genomic Data Management of Rumen Microbes

Saber Jelokhani-Niaraki,Zarrin Minuchehr,Mohammad Reza Nassiri,Mojtaba Tahmoorespur 한국유전체학회 2015 Genomics & informatics Vol.13 No.1

During recent years, there has been exponential growth in biological information. With the emergence of large datasets inbiology, life scientists are encountering bottlenecks in handling the biological data. This study presents an integratedgeographic information system (GIS)-ontology application for handling microbial genome data. The application uses a linearreferencing technique as one of the GIS functionalities to represent genes as linear events on the genome layer, where userscan define/change the attributes of genes in an event table and interactively see the gene events on a genome layer. Ourapplication adopted ontology to portray and store genomic data in a semantic framework, which facilitates data-sharingamong biology domains, applications, and experts. The application was developed in two steps. In the first step, the genomeannotated data were prepared and stored in a MySQL database. The second step involved the connection of the database toboth ArcGIS and Protégé as the GIS engine and ontology platform, respectively. We have designed this application specificallyto manage the genome-annotated data of rumen microbial populations. Such a GIS-ontology application offers powerfulcapabilities for visualizing, managing, reusing, sharing, and querying genome-related data.

Sequence and phylogenetic analysis of the non-structural 3A and 3B protein-coding regions of foot-and-mouth disease virus subtype A Iran 05

Saber Jelokhani-Niaraki,Morteza Daliri,Rasoul Vaez-Torshizi,Morteza Kamalzadeh,Mohsen Lotfi,Majid Esmaelizad 대한수의학회 2010 Journal of Veterinary Science Vol.11 No.3

The A Iran 05 foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) subtype was detected in Iran during 2005 and has proven to be highly virulent. This study was undertaken to focus on molecular and phylogenetic analysis of 3A and 3B coding-regions in the A Iran 05 field isolate. To assess the genetic relatedness of A Iran 05 isolate the nucleotide and predicted amino acid sequences of the 3AB region of type A FMDV isolates were compared with twenty previously described type A FMDV isolates. The phylogenetic tree based on the 672 bp 3AB gene sequences of type A FMDV from thirteen different locations clustered them into five distinct lineages. The A Iran 05 isolate clustered in lineage A along with four type A variants and was closely matched with viruses isolated in Turkey and Pakistan during 2005∼2006. The number of protein sequence differences exhibited by each of the isolates revealed that A Iran 05 isolate contains three amino acid substitutions at positions 47 and 119 of 3A and 27 of the 3B coding region. The nucleotide identity between A Iran 05 and the other four isolates of lineage A was estimated to be 98%.

GIS-based Web-Service Architecture

Abolghasem Sadeghi Niaraki,Kyehyun Kim,Cholyoung Lee,Taehoon Kim 대한공간정보학회 2008 한국지형공간정보학회 학술대회 Vol.2008 No.10

The present research addresses the system design for building a geospatially-based web services application for mobile users. In recent years, geospatial information (GI) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are significant resources in decision-making analyses at various levels of society and activities. Recently, the integration of GIS and web services, called GIS web services, provides the wider implementation of GIS. At the present time, accessing, presenting, and manipulating updatedgeospatial information to locate geo-related facility services are real challenges related to application developers to implement for foot-travelers properly. The present paper investigates how the web services work in a GIS for discovering geo-related facility services such as a restaurant and post office in the user’s vicinity. Thus, a prototype, with an architecture consisting of a windows application on the client side as well as facility services and geo-engineon the server side, were designed and implemented with the proposed GIS web services platform. On both the client and server sides, visual studio .Net technology was used. A geo-engine on the server side was also built with ESRI’s MapObjects. Following successful implementation of the prototype presented in this study, the mobile user is able to invoke remote web services to assess the location of various facilities such as restaurants. Moreover, the present research demonstratesthat web services are not restricted only to web-based use, but can also be utilized by any web-connected application.

Participatory Assessment of urban land uses: a map-based voting approach

Mohammadreza Jelokhani-Niaraki,Somayeh Mahmoudi,Najmeh Tayebi 대한공간정보학회 2022 Spatial Information Research Vol.30 No.3

Urban land uses determined solely based on experts’ opinions, perspectives, expertise and desires may not meet local people’s needs and may be subject to conflict and opposition. Some of the stakeholders may fully agree with the current expert-based land uses and some may completely disagree. This study presents a systematic map-based voting approach to select the best uses for the lands based on the stakeholders’ preferences and compare them with current expert-oriented land uses. The proposed method was utilized for assessing the uses of urban land parcels in District # 15 of Tehran, Iran. The results show that the participatory and expert-driven land uses are different for six parcels out of ten, which implies that the land use preferences of the local stakeholders/citizens are not compatible with that of the experts for all of the land parcels.

Grid Based Nonpoint Source Pollution Load Modelling

Abolghasem Sadeghi Niaraki,Jae-Min Park,Kyehyun Kim,Chulyong Lee 대한공간정보학회 2007 한국지형공간정보학회 학술대회 Vol.2007 No.6

The purpose of this study is to develop a grid based model for calculating the critical nonpoint source (NPS) pollution load (BOD, TN, TP) in Nak-dong area in South Korea. In the last two decades, NPS pollution has become a topic for research that resulted in the development of numerous modeling techniques. Watershed researchers need to be able to emphasis on the characterization of water quality, including NPS pollution loads estimates. Geographic Information System (GIS) has been designed for the assessment of NPS pollution in a watershed. It uses different data such as DEM, precipitation, stream network, discharge, and land use data sets and utilizes a grid representation of a watershed for the approximation of average annual pollution loads and concentrations. The difficulty in traditional NPS modeling is the problem of identifying sources and quantifying the loads. This research is intended to investigate the correlation of NPS pollution concentrations with land uses in a watershed by calculating Expected Mean Concentrations (EMC). This work was accomplished using a grid based modelling technique that encompasses three stages. The first step includes estimating runoff grid by means of the precipitation grid and runoff coefficient. The second step is deriving the gird based model for calculating NPS pollution loads. The last step is validating the gird based model with traditional pollution loads calculation by applying statistical t-test method. The results on real data, illustrate the merits of the grid based modelling approach. Therefore, this model investigates a method of estimating and simulating point loads along with the spatially distributed NPS pollution loads. The pollutant concentration from local runoff is supposed to be directly related to land use in the region and is not considered to vary from event to event or within areas of similar land uses. By consideration of this point, it is anticipated that a single mean estimated pollutant concentration is assigned to all land uses rather than taking into account unique concentrations for different soil types, crops, and so on.