This book is an attempt to establish in the readers the importance of creating interoperable data stores and writing rules for handling this data. It also covers extracts from a few project dissertations and a research funded project that the author had supervised.

Describes the power of ontologies for better data management

Provides an overview of knowledge engineering including ontology engineering, tools and techniques

Provides sample development procedures for creating two domain ontologies.

Depicts the utility of ontological representation in situation awareness

Demonstrates recommendation engine for unconventional emergencies using a hybrid reasoning approach.

The text explains how to make better utilization of resources when emergency strikes. Graduates and undergraduates doing courses in artificial intelligence, semantic web and knowledge engineering will find this book beneficial.