GeoSpatial Semantics: Second International Conference, Geos 2007, Mexico City, Mexico, November 29-30, 2007

by Fonseca, Frederico; Rodriguez, M. Andrea; Levashkin, Sergei

• ISBN13: 9783540768753
• ISBN10: 3540768750
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-20
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Models and Languages for Geo-Ontologies
Two Types of Hierarchies in Geospatial Ontologies	p. 1
Semantic Annotation of Maps Through Knowledge Provenance	p. 20
Architecture for a Grounded Ontology of Geographic Information	p. 36
Alignment and Integration of Geo-Ontologies
Towards Effective Geographic Ontology Matching	p. 51
An Algorithm for Merging Geographic Datasets Based on the Spatial Distributions of Their Values	p. 66
Structure-Based Methods to Enhance Geospatial Ontology Alignment	p. 82
Ontology-Based Spatial Information Retrieval
Geographic Information Retrieval by Topological, Geographical, and Conceptual Matching	p. 98
A Rule-Based Description Framework for the Composition of Geographic Information Services	p. 114
Algorithm, Implementation and Application of the SIM-DL Similarity Server	p. 128
Formal Representation for GeoSpatial Data
A Location and Action-Based Model for Route Descriptions	p. 146
Spatio-temporal Conceptual Schema Development for Wide-Area Sensor Networks	p. 160
Modeling Spatio-temporal Network Computations: A Summary of Results	p. 177
Integration of Semantics into Spatial Query Processing
Building Geospatial Ontologies from Geographical Databases	p. 195
Applying Spatial Reasoning to Topographical Data with a Grounded Geographical Ontology	p. 210
Supporting Complex Thematic, Spatial and Temporal Queries over Semantic Web Data	p. 228
Short Papers
Semantic Similarity Applied to Generalization of Geospatial Data	p. 247
Towards Semantics for Map Styles	p. 256
DAGIS: A Geospatial Semantic Web Services Discovery and Selection Framework	p. 268
The Gravity Data Ontology: Laying the Foundation for Workflow-Driven Ontologies	p. 278
Author Index	p. 289
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