Knowledge Management with Case-Based Reasoning applied on Fire Emergency Handling

Case-Based Reasoning is a Knowledge Management mechanism that allows knowledge acquisition through learning and experience undergone in the process of problem solving applying similarity-based reasoning. Problem representation is by means of metadata representation of certain knowledge items stored in a repository termed Case-Base. This paper discusses on a Fire Emergency Handling System where fire cases have ontological representation implemented in Object-oriented Java platform that assists fire fighters or administrators to take a decision on the resources required to handle or control fire.