Intelligent Information Integration for the Semantic Web

Ubbo Visser (auth.)9783540229933, 9783540286363, 3540229930

The semantic Web offers new opportunities for information processes. This book is devoted to the core issue of data integration at the semantic level and demonstrates the applicability of the techniques developed to spatio-temporal representation and reasoning and geographic information systems.

Preceded by a motivating introduction and an overview of the state of the art in the field of information integration, fundamental problems of terminological representation, terminological reasoning, and semantic translation are treated in detail. The theoretical results and techniques developed are applied to intelligent conceptual and spatio-temporal queries of heterogeneous geographic information systems.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Front Matter….Pages 1-1
Introduction….Pages 3-11
Related Work….Pages 13-34
Front Matter….Pages 35-35
General Approach of Buster….Pages 37-51
Terminological Representation and Reasoning, Semantic Translation….Pages 53-73
Spatial Representation and Reasoning….Pages 75-91
Temporal Representation and Reasoning….Pages 93-121
Front Matter….Pages 123-123
Implementation Issues and System Demonstration….Pages 125-136
Conclusion and Future Work….Pages 137-140
References….Pages 141-150
Back Matter….Pages –