Using Ontologies to Support Model-based Exploration of the Dependencies between Causes and Consequences of Hazards

Abigail Parisaca Vargas, Robin Bloomfield

2015

Abstract

Hazard identification and hazard analysis are difficult and essential parts of safety engineering. These activities are very demanding and mostly manual. There is an increasing need for improved analysis tools and techniques. In this paper we report research that focuses on supporting the early stages of hazard identification. A state-based hazard analysis process is presented to explore dependencies between causes and consequences of hazards. The process can be used to automate the analysis of preliminary hazard worksheets with the aims of making them more precise, disambiguating causal relationships, and supporting the proper definition of system boundaries. An application example is presented for a railway system.

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Parisaca Vargas A. and Bloomfield R. (2015). Using Ontologies to Support Model-based Exploration of the Dependencies between Causes and Consequences of Hazards . In Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-158-8, pages 316-327. DOI: 10.5220/0005618003160327

in Bibtex Style

@conference{keod15,
author={Abigail Parisaca Vargas and Robin Bloomfield},
title={Using Ontologies to Support Model-based Exploration of the Dependencies between Causes and Consequences of Hazards},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={316-327},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005618003160327},
isbn={978-989-758-158-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2015)
TI - Using Ontologies to Support Model-based Exploration of the Dependencies between Causes and Consequences of Hazards
SN - 978-989-758-158-8
AU - Parisaca Vargas A.
AU - Bloomfield R.
PY - 2015
SP - 316
EP - 327
DO - 10.5220/0005618003160327