Today ontology languages present a syntax which looks not “natural” and are lacking of built-in primitives (i.e., modeling notions) domain experts are familiar with. In this pa...
A goal of the Geosciences Network (GEON) is to develop cyber-infrastructure that will allow earth scientists to discover access, integrate and disseminate knowledge in distributed...
Leonardo Salayandia, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Ann ...
The semantic web aims at enabling the web to understand and answer the requests from people and machines. It relies on several standards for representing and reasoning about web c...
This paper discusses the ontological status of remote sensing images, from a GIScience perspective. We argue that images have a dual nature—they are fields at the measurement lev...
The traditional workflow process model is typically illustrated with a graph of activities, tasks, deliverables and techniques. From an object-oriented perspective, every identifi...