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Semantic Behavior Modeling and Event-Driven Reasoning for Urban System of Systems

Authors:
Maria Coelho
Mark Austin
Mark Blackburn

Keywords: Systems Engineering; Ontologies; Behavior Modeling; Mediator; Network Communication.

Abstract:
Modern urban infrastructure systems are defined by spatially distributed network structures, concurrent subsystem-level behaviors, distributed control and decision making, and interdependencies among subsystems that are not always well understood. The study of the interdependencies within urban infrastructures is a growing field of research as the importance of potential failure propagation among infrastructures may lead to cascades affecting multiple urban networks. There is a strong need for methods that can describe the evolutionary nature of ``system-of-systems'' (SoS) as a whole. This paper presents a model of system-level interactions that simulates distributed system behaviors through the use of ontologies, rules checking, message passing mechanisms, and mediators. We take initial steps toward the behavior modeling of large-scale urban networks as collections of networks that interact via many-to-many association relationships. The prototype application is a collection of families interacting with a collection of school systems. We conclude with ideas for scaling up the simulations with Natural Language Processing.

Pages: 365 to 382

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2017. Used with permission.

Publication date: December 31, 2017

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ISSN: 1942-2679