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GEOS
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Narrative Geospatial Knowledge in Ethnographies: Representation and Reasoning
Abstract. Narrative descriptions about populated places are very common in ethnographies. In old articles and books on the migration history of Taiwan aborigines, for example, narr...
Chin-Lung Chang, Yi-Hong Chang, Tyng-Ruey Chuang, ...
GEOS
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Ontology-Based Integration of Sensor Web Services in Disaster Management
With the specifications defined through the Sensor Web Enablement initiative of the Open Geospatial Consortium, flexible integration of sensor data is becoming a reality. Challe...
Grigori Babitski, Simon Bergweiler, Jörg Hoff...
GEOS
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
SPARQL Query Re-writing Using Partonomy Based Transformation Rules
Abstract. Often the information present in a spatial knowledge base is represented at a different level of granularity and abstraction than the query constraints. For querying onto...
Prateek Jain, Peter Z. Yeh, Kunal Verma, Cory A. H...
GEOS
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Bottom-Up Gazetteers: Learning from the Implicit Semantics of Geotags
As directories of named places, gazetteers link the names to geographic footprints and place types. Most existing gazetteers are managed strictly top-down: entries can only be adde...
Carsten Keßler, Patrick Maué, Jan Tor...
GEOS
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Functional Ontology of Observation and Measurement
An ontology of observation and measurement is proposed, which models the relevant information processes independently of sensor technology. It is kept at a sufficiently general lev...
Werner Kuhn
GEOS
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
The Case for Grounding Databases
What is the intended interpretation of a geospatial database in terms of reproducible experiences? How should places on a digital globe be interpreted on the earth surface? And how...
Simon Scheider
GEOS
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Towards Reasoning Pragmatics
Abstract. The realization of Semantic Web reasoning is central to substantiating the Semantic Web vision. However, current mainstream research on this topic faces serious challenge...
Pascal Hitzler