Many of the qualities that characterize geographic regions are vague and granular in their nature. In many quality-based classification and delineation systems for geographic regi...
Abstract. Grounding an ontology upon geographical data has been proposed as a method of handling the vagueness in the domain more effectively. In order to do this, we require meth...
Uncertainty management for geometric data is currently an important problem for (extensible) databases in general and for spatial databases, image databases, and GIS in particular...
Abstract. A fundamental data modeling problem in geographical information systems and spatial database systems refers to an appropriate treatment of the vagueness or indeterminacy ...
Gazetteer services are an important component in a wide variety of systems, including geographic search engines and question answering systems. Unfortunately, the footprints provid...
Steven Schockaert, Martine De Cock, Etienne E. Ker...