HeTOnto: A Novel Approach for Conceptualization, Modeling, Visualization, and Formalization of Domain Centric Ontologies for Heat Transfer

Abstract

Ontology is a means of capturing knowledge and displaying it in a highly comprehensible way to make it both machine-understandable and human-understandable. In this paper, the methodology of modeling an ontology is described using the processes of domain analysis, conceptualization, implementation, and evaluation. Semantic Descriptions for most of the concepts are provided, and the transfiguration from OWL to RDF is proposed. The relationship between the various concepts is established by defining many relationship attributes like "isAPartOf", "hasAPartOf", "consistsOf", "isAnExhaustiveSubclassOf" and various other attributes which deepen the domain of the ontology. In this paper, an ontology for Heat Transfer as a domain is proposed modeling all the intricacies of Heat Transfer into a dynamic Ontology. The domain is thoroughly studied, and the modeled ontology is evaluated by the domain experts, and the required changes are incorporated. Finally, the ontology is Quantitatively and Qualitatively evaluated using the Semiotics Approach for ontology evaluation and a spectacular reusability ratio of 92.63%.