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Components of an Ontology for a Smart Village

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The development of the science of smart villages is dependent on how well we describe a village, and the attributes that make it ‘smart’. This chapter aims to present components of an ontology for a ‘smart village’. We critically explore examples of characteristics of a smart city proposed by researchers in the existing literature and discuss their adaptation for the construction of an ontology for a smart village. We propose the usage of specific terms that can express the domain knowledge top-down by first highlighting general concepts and then specialized ones. The chapter also emphasizes learning which is key and unique to our model of smart villages.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Richard Florida, Mark Fox and V. I. Lakshmanan for some helpful and encouraging comments. We would also like to thank Duduzile Chinyenze for help with the graphics, especially Figs. 9.2 and 9.3.

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Kumar Murty, V., Shankar, S.S. (2022). Components of an Ontology for a Smart Village. In: Lakshmanan, V.I., Chockalingam, A., Murty, V.K., Kalyanasundaram, S. (eds) Smart Villages. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68458-7_9

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