GeoSpatial Semantics: Second International Conference, GeoS 2007, Mexico City, Mexico, November 29-30, 2007. Proceedings

Sumit Sen (auth.), Frederico Fonseca, M. Andrea Rodríguez, Sergei Levashkin (eds.)3540768750, 9783540768753

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 15 revised full papers presented together with 4 revised short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. 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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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Two Types of Hierarchies in Geospatial Ontologies….Pages 1-19
Semantic Annotation of Maps Through Knowledge Provenance….Pages 20-35
Architecture for a Grounded Ontology of Geographic Information….Pages 36-50
Towards Effective Geographic Ontology Matching….Pages 51-65
An Algorithm for Merging Geographic Datasets Based on the Spatial Distributions of Their Values….Pages 66-81
Structure-Based Methods to Enhance Geospatial Ontology Alignment….Pages 82-97
Geographic Information Retrieval by Topological, Geographical, and Conceptual Matching….Pages 98-113
A Rule-Based Description Framework for the Composition of Geographic Information Services….Pages 114-127
Algorithm, Implementation and Application of the SIM-DL Similarity Server….Pages 128-145
A Location and Action-Based Model for Route Descriptions….Pages 146-159
Spatio-temporal Conceptual Schema Development for Wide-Area Sensor Networks….Pages 160-176
Modeling Spatio-temporal Network Computations: A Summary of Results….Pages 177-194
Building Geospatial Ontologies from Geographical Databases….Pages 195-209
Applying Spatial Reasoning to Topographical Data with a Grounded Geographical Ontology….Pages 210-227
Supporting Complex Thematic, Spatial and Temporal Queries over Semantic Web Data….Pages 228-246
Semantic Similarity Applied to Generalization of Geospatial Data….Pages 247-255
Towards Semantics for Map Styles….Pages 256-267
DAGIS: A Geospatial Semantic Web Services Discovery and Selection Framework….Pages 268-277
The Gravity Data Ontology: Laying the Foundation for Workflow-Driven Ontologies….Pages 278-287
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