GeoSpatial Semantics
Third International Conference, GeoS 2009, Mexico City, Mexico, December 3-4, 2009, Proceedings
Published on 11. November 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
X, 205 pages
978-3-642-10435-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on GeoSpatial Semantics, GeoS 2009, held in Mexico City, Mexico in December 2009. The 10 revised full papers presented together with 2 keynote speeches were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections foundations on geo-semantics; formal representation of geospatial data; semantics-based information retrieval and recommmender systems; integration of sematics into spatial query processing; and geo-ontologies and applications.
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Series
Edition
2009 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
X, 205 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
335 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-642-10435-0 (9783642104350)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-10436-7
Schweitzer Classification
Content
Keynotes.- Multi-cultural Aspects of Spatial Knowledge.- Towards Reasoning Pragmatics.- Foundations of Geo-semantics.- A Functional Ontology of Observation and Measurement.- The Case for Grounding Databases.- Formal Representation of Geospatial Data.- Towards a Semantic Representation of Raster Spatial Data.- Bottom-Up Gazetteers: Learning from the Implicit Semantics of Geotags.- Semantics-Based Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems.- Ontology-Based Integration of Sensor Web Services in Disaster Management.- A Spatial User Similarity Measure for Geographic Recommender Systems.- Integration of Semantics into Spatial Query Processing.- SPARQL Query Re-writing Using Partonomy Based Transformation Rules.- iRank: Ranking Geographical Information by Conceptual, Geographic and Topologic Similarity.- Geo-ontologies and Applications.- Towards an Ontology for Reef Islands.- Narrative Geospatial Knowledge in Ethnographies: Representation and Reasoning.