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GEOS
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Structure-Based Methods to Enhance Geospatial Ontology Alignment
In geospatial applications with heterogeneous classification schemes that describe related domains, an ontology-driven approach to data sharing and interoperability relies on the ...
William Sunna, Isabel F. Cruz
GEOS
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Spatio-temporal Conceptual Schema Development for Wide-Area Sensor Networks
Abstract. A Wide-Area Sensor Network (WASN) is a collection of heterogeneous sensor networks and data repositories spread over a wide geographic area. The diversity of sensor types...
Mallikarjun Shankar, Alexandre Sorokine, Budhendra...
GEOS
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Semantic Annotation of Maps Through Knowledge Provenance
Maps are artifacts often derived from multiple sources of data, e.g., sensors, and processed by multiple methods, e.g., gridding and smoothing algorithms. As a result, complex meta...
Nicholas Del Rio, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Ann Q. ...
GEOS
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Supporting Complex Thematic, Spatial and Temporal Queries over Semantic Web Data
Spatial and temporal data are critical components in many applications. This is especially true in analytical domains such as national security and criminal investigation. Often, t...
Matthew Perry, Amit P. Sheth, Farshad Hakimpour, P...
GEOS
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Applying Spatial Reasoning to Topographical Data with a Grounded Geographical Ontology
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...
David Mallenby, Brandon Bennett
GEOS
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Rule-Based Description Framework for the Composition of Geographic Information Services
SDIs offer access to a wealth of distributed data sources through standardised service interfaces. Recently, also geoprocessing capabilities are offered as services in SDIs. Combin...
Michael Lutz, Roberto Lucchi, Anders Friis-Christe...
GEOS
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Algorithm, Implementation and Application of the SIM-DL Similarity Server
Abstract. Semantic similarity measurement gained attention as a methodology for ontology-based information retrieval within GIScience over the last years. Several theories explain ...
Krzysztof Janowicz, Carsten Keßler, Mirco Sc...
GEOS
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Modeling Spatio-temporal Network Computations: A Summary of Results
Spatio-temporal network is defined by a set of nodes, and a set of edges, where the properties of nodes and edges may vary over time. Such networks are encountered in a variety of...
Betsy George, Shashi Shekhar
GEOS
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
The Gravity Data Ontology: Laying the Foundation for Workflow-Driven Ontologies
Abstract. A workflow-driven ontology is an ontology that encodes disciplinespecific knowledge in the form of concepts and relationships and that facilitates the composition of serv...
Ann Q. Gates, G. Randy Keller, Leonardo Salayandia...
GEOS
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Location and Action-Based Model for Route Descriptions
Abstract. Representing human spatial knowledge has long been a challenging research area. The objective of this paper is to model a route description of human navigation where verb...
David Brosset, Christophe Claramunt, Eric Saux