GeoSpatial Semantics
Second International Conference, GeoS 2007, Mexico City, Mexico, November 29-30, 2007
Published on 16. November 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
V, 289 pages
978-3-540-76875-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on GeoSpatial Semantics, GeoS 2007, held in Mexico City, Mexico, in November 2007. The papers are organized in topical sections on models and languages for geo-ontologies, alignment and integration of geo-ontologies, ontology-based spatial information retrieval, formal representation for geospatial data, and integration of semantics into spatial query processing.
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Series
Edition
2007 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
V, 289 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
464 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-76875-3 (9783540768753)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-540-76876-0
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Content
Models and Languages for Geo-Ontologies.- Two Types of Hierarchies in Geospatial Ontologies.- Semantic Annotation of Maps Through Knowledge Provenance.- Architecture for a Grounded Ontology of Geographic Information.- Alignment and Integration of Geo-Ontologies.- Towards Effective Geographic Ontology Matching.- An Algorithm for Merging Geographic Datasets Based on the Spatial Distributions of Their Values.- Structure-Based Methods to Enhance Geospatial Ontology Alignment.- Ontology-Based Spatial Information Retrieval.- Geographic Information Retrieval by Topological, Geographical, and Conceptual Matching.- A Rule-Based Description Framework for the Composition of Geographic Information Services.- Algorithm, Implementation and Application of the SIM-DL Similarity Server.- Formal Representation for GeoSpatial Data.- A Location and Action-Based Model for Route Descriptions.- Spatio-temporal Conceptual Schema Development for Wide-Area Sensor Networks.- Modeling Spatio-temporal Network Computations: A Summary of Results.- Integration of Semantics into Spatial Query Processing.- Building Geospatial Ontologies from Geographical Databases.- Applying Spatial Reasoning to Topographical Data with a Grounded Geographical Ontology.- Supporting Complex Thematic, Spatial and Temporal Queries over Semantic Web Data.- Short Papers.- Semantic Similarity Applied to Generalization of Geospatial Data.- Towards Semantics for Map Styles.- DAGIS: A Geospatial Semantic Web Services Discovery and Selection Framework.- The Gravity Data Ontology: Laying the Foundation for Workflow-Driven Ontologies.