The methodology of using ontology when designing a system for evaluating the economic efficiency of geological exploration

Abstract

The use of the ontological approach in the design of various information systems quite often aims at finding hidden dependencies that are not obvious at the stage of a system design. Another important aspect of the application of ontology is the need to take into account a large number of evaluation factors. Often there is a situation when the use of a standard binary architecture of connections between system elements, by analogy with databases, does not give the necessary result. This is usually due to the limitations of such relationships (one to one, one to many) when designing an information system. Accordingly, it is the ontological approach that allows us to resolve this contradiction and take into account those relationships and factors that could not be taken into account in the binary data structure. The purpose of this work is to form methodological recommendations on the use of ontology in the process of designing a system for evaluating the economic efficiency of geological exploration. As a result, we propose the structure of the ontological model, in relation to the block of parameters for assessing the economic efficiency of exploration, as well as a variant of applying this structure in practice. In the future, it is planned to develop an information system for evaluating the effectiveness of geological exploration based on the use of this ontological model.