Using Ontology for the Development of a Knowledge-Based System for E&P Business

This paper discusses the work undertaken by the authors to develop a knowledge-based system (KBS) for the exploration and production (E&P) business based on the domain specific ontology. The E&P is one that is fraught with high employee turnover due to the volatile market trends. The introduction of a KBS to capture the knowledge of industry experts will aid the preservation of knowledge assets within the organization. In order to ensure the comprehensiveness of the captured knowledge and the knowledge is interpreted within the correct context, ontology is developed prior to the development of the KBS. The KBS, called the Expert Directory System (EDS) was then developed based on the ontology and this paper includes a discussion on the EDS implementation.