A Domain Ontology to Support Evidence-Based Practice and Context Usage on Crime Prevention

Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) represents a decision-making process centered on justifications of relevant information. Context is a kind of knowledge that supports the ability to define what is or is not relevant in a given situation. The decision-making context can have an impact on evidencebased decision-making, but the integration of evidence and context is still an open issue. Ontology is referred as the shared understanding about a domain. One of the main reasons for developing context models based on ontologies is the knowledge sharing that enables computational entities, such as agents and services to find actors’ similar profiles in decision making environment. This paper presents the integration of evidence and context on decision making and proposes a domain ontology to support EBP and context usage on the crime prevention domain. A practical implementation serves to validate our work.