Zelenchuk A.   Molorodov Y.I.  

Information System for Integration of Thermophysical Property Data

Reporter: Molorodov Y.I.

Working with experimental data is central to thermal physics. The goal of this work is to create factual information system for integration (collection, storage, presentation and pre-processing) of data from experimental and theoretical studies on thermophysical properties of materials, particularly chemical substances.
A promising approach is the use of ontology [1]. The ontology term refers to strict description of domain concepts and semantic relations between them in a certain formal format.
One of the main tasks in this work is to create an ontology for working with data on thermophysical properties of materials that adequately describes this subject area and is the basis for an information systems working with the thermophysical property data.
The most popular and suitable for the task family of formal knowledge representation languages, that is ontology description languages, is OWL (Web Ontology Language) [2, 3].
In this work, the terminological component (TBox) claimed the domain ontology is constructed and described by means of OWL [4]. The objects of research in thermal physics are materials, particularly chemical substances. The base record about thermophysical property data on chemical substance is the following: "A given substance in a given state has a given property with a given value obtained from a given source".
The next task of this work is to develop an information system that allows to edit a set of statements (ABox) on substances and their thermophysical properties within a given ontology, as well as visualize an information available and pre-process a numerical data.