IPMOntoShare: Merging of Integrated Pest Management Ontologies
Integrated pest management (IPM) is a combination of different techniques to increase crop production in eco-friendly manner. Minimizing use of pesticides with IPM will reduce risk of human diseases and will also reduce environmental risks. Various comput
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Abstract Integrated pest management (IPM) is a combination of different techniques to increase crop production in eco-friendly manner. Minimizing use of pesticides with IPM will reduce risk of human diseases and will also reduce environmental risks. Various computerized systems are used for IPM, where agricultural experts provide their pest management knowledge as input for decision-making. Integrated pest management knowledge if represented as ontology, it can be shared by heterogeneous agricultural computerized systems. This paper presents a tool to develop IPM ontology using upper IPM ontology and domain specific crop IPM ontology. Tool is named IPMOntoDeveloper. IPM ontologies developed by distinct agricultural experts can be integrated into one to enrich knowledge base of IPM practices for specific crop. This paper presents a system named IPMOntoShare to merge IPM ontologies developed by various agricultural experts. It combines several approaches of ontology matching, including name matching and structure matching. Keywords Integrated pest management development Ontology merging
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1 Introduction Integrated pest management is the need of time. It is observed that excessive use of pests has adverse effect on human health and also on environment. A number of diseases are caused because of toxic pesticides used to control pests on crops. As pesticides are sprayed evenly on complete crop field, it can affect soil, running
A. Chougule (✉) ⋅ V.K. Jha Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India e-mail: [email protected] V.K. Jha e-mail: [email protected] © Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2017 S.C. Satapathy et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Informatics, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 507, DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-2471-9_63
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water and air at the crop field and across the crop field. It also affects other species which are not targeted by the pesticide. To reduce these risks, integrate pest management (IPM) technique is used. The use of computerized systems to implement IPM techniques is obvious. As these systems are of varying kind, there must be a way to represent knowledge which can be easily shared among heterogeneous systems. One of the best approaches to represent domain knowledge is through ontologies. Formal representation of concepts, relationships, assumptions, and constraints in specific domain can be presented as ontology. The ontology can be used as a classification tool in specific domain as it defines structure and hierarchy of concepts in the domain. Hence, an easy to use tool for agricultural experts named IPMOntoDeveloper is proposed here. It uses ontology of core IPM techniques as upper ontology for the development of crop specific IPM ontology. While building ontology, viewpoints of developers can be different. To support sharing of IPM ontologies developed by various agricultural experts, ontology merging is required. Creating a new o
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