Shin Zert Phua

Mr. Shin Zert Phua


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Academic Career Length

3Years (2024-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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31 July 2024 in Sustainable Cities and Society
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SPShin Zert Phua
Shin Zert Phua
MHMarkus Hofmeister
Markus Hofmeister
YTYi-Kai Tsai
Yi-Kai Tsai
OPOisín Peppard
Oisín Peppard
KLKok Foong Lee
Kok Foong Lee
MKMarkus Kraft
Markus Kraft

3 September 2024 in Applied Sciences
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SPShin Zert Phua
Shin Zert Phua
KLKok Foong Lee
Kok Foong Lee
YTYi-Kai Tsai
Yi-Kai Tsai
SGSrishti Ganguly
Srishti Ganguly
JYJingya Yan
Jingya Yan
MKMarkus Kraft
Markus Kraft
This paper explores the application of The World Avatar (TWA) dynamic knowledge graph to connect isolated data and assess the impact of rising sea levels in Singapore. Current sea level rise vulnerability assessment tools are often regional, narrow in scope (e.g., economic or cultural aspects only), and are inadequate in representing complex non-geospatial data consistently. We apply TWA to conduct a multi-perspective impact assessment of sea level rise in Singapore, evaluating vulnerable buildings, road networks, land plots, cultural sites, and populations. We introduce OntoSeaLevel, an ontology to describe sea level rise scenarios, and its impact on broader elements defined in other ontologies such as buildings (OntoBuiltEnv ontology), road networks (OpenStreetMap ontology), and land plots (Ontoplot and Ontozoning ontology). We deploy computational agents to synthesise data from government, industry, and other publicly accessible sources, enriching buildings with metadata such as property usage, estimated construction cost, number of floors, and gross floor area. An agent is applied to identify and instantiate the impacted sites using OntoSeaLevel. These sites include vulnerable buildings, land plots, cultural sites, and populations at risk. We showcase these sea level rise vulnerable elements in a unified visualisation, demonstrating TWA’s potential as a planning tool against sea level rise through vulnerability assessment, resource allocation, and integrated spatial planning.