Authors: Jean Marc Mercantini, Claudia Detraux, Diégo Dantas de Freitas
The purpose of the paper is to present the design of a software tool to plan fight actions against marine pollutions. In particular such tool has to assist crisis management staff to minimise pollution impact due to maritime accident. From a methodological point of view, the paper shows the importance of developing ontologies (i) for structuring a domain (at a conceptual level) as its actors perceive it and (ii) for building computer tool for aid solving problems in that domain.