Application of ontology in vulnerability analysis of metro operation systems

This article belongs to a group of three papers in the field of virtual design and construction of infrastructure assembled by Professor Peter E.D. Love, Curtin University, Australia.

Abstract

Vulnerability analysis plays a key role in the metro operation system, since the metro operation security has become more important than ever. The vulnerability management is a systems engineering, it covers different departments of the metro operation company. A successful vulnerability management needs the close cooperation and coordination between them. However, it has blocked a successful vulnerability management due to lack of the common knowledge basis. This paper applies ontology into the vulnerability analysis of the metro operation system and illustrated the major design ideas of the ontology model. Examples are given as well to demonstrate the implementation of knowledge reasoning based on the ontology. The ontology was also evaluated through expert evaluation for further improvement. By using this technology, a common knowledge base of the vulnerability management in the metro operation system can be built. It provides information sharing, communication and collaboration for all the participants in the system for decision-making. Moreover, further development of the intelligent application can be built based on it, efficiently increasing the management level of the vulnerability.

Keywords:

• Ontology
• metro operation system
• vulnerability analysis
• decision-making
• risk knowledge management

Acknowledgement

The authors also would like to thank anonymous reviewers who gave valuable suggestion that has helped to improve the quality of the manuscript.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes

This article belongs to a group of three papers in the field of virtual design and construction of infrastructure assembled by Professor Peter E.D. Love, Curtin University, Australia.