An ontology-based decision support tool for optimizing domestic solar hot water system selection

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作者
Kontopoulos, Efstratios [1 ,2 ]
Martinopoulos, Georgios [2 ]
Lazarou, Despina [2 ]
Bassiliades, Nick [2 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Ctr Res & Technol, Inst Informat Technol, Hellas, Greece
[2] Int Hellen Univ, Sch Sci & Technol, Thessaloniki, Greece
[3] Aristotle Univ Thessaloniki, Dept Informat, GR-54006 Thessaloniki, Greece
关键词
Sustainable development; Ontology-based selection; DSHWS building integration; SEMANTIC WEB;
D O I
10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.08.088
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
In an effort to tackle climate change most countries utilize renewable energy sources. This is more pronounced in the building sector, which is currently one of the major consumers of energy, mostly in the form of heat. In order to further promote the use of domestic solar hot water systems in buildings, an ontology-based decision support tool has been developed and is presented in this paper. The proposed tool aids non-technical consumers to select a domestic solar hot water system tailored to their needs, containing up-to-date information on its components and interrelationships, installation costs etc., in the form of an ontology formulated in OWL (Web Ontology Language). The optimum system configurations are computed based on various specific parameters, such as number of occupants, daily hot water requirements and house location. The backbone of the proposed system is an ontology that represents the application domain and contains information regarding the various domestic solar hot water system components along with their interrelationships. Ontologies are a rapidly evolving knowledge representation paradigm that offers various advantages and, when deployed specifically in the domestic solar hot water systems domain, deliver improved representation, sharing and re-use of the relevant information. As a conclusion, this paper presents an ontology-driven decision support system for facilitating the selection of domestic solar hot water system, which delivers certain advantages, such as sustainability of the decision support system itself, due to its open and interoperable knowledge-base, and its adaptability/flexibility in decision making policies, due to is semantic (ontological) nature. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:4636 / 4646
页数:11
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