ONTOWEDSS - AN ONTOLOGY-BASED ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION-SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS

The contributions of this thesis bridge two disciplines: environmental science (specifically, wastewater management) and computer science (specifically, artificial intelligence). Wastewater management as a discipline operates using a range of different approaches and methods which include: manual control, on-line automatic control, numerical or non-numerical models, statistical models and simulation models. The thesis characterizes an interdisciplinary research on artificial intelligence...