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Geographic Information Science

Third International Conference, GI Science 2004 Adelphi, MD, USA, October 20-23, 2004 Proceedings

Editors:

  1. Max J. Egenhofer

    1. National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis and Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, USA

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  2. Christian Freksa

    1. SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany

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  3. Harvey J. Miller

    1. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 3234)

Conference series link(s): GIScience: International Conference on Geographic Information Science

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Table of contents (22 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  3. Geo-Self-Organizing Map (Geo-SOM) for Building and Exploring Homogeneous Regions

    • Fernando Bação, Victor Lobo, Marco Painho
    Pages 22-37

  5. Semi-automatic Ontology Alignment for Geospatial Data Integration

    • Isabel F. Cruz, William Sunna, Anjli Chaudhry
    Pages 51-66

  6. Modeling Surface Hydrology Concepts with Endurance and Perdurance

    • Chen-Chieh Feng, Thomas Bittner, Douglas M. Flewelling
    Pages 67-80

  7. Procedure to Select the Best Dataset for a Task

    • Andrew U. Frank, Eva Grum, Bérengère Vasseur
    Pages 81-93

  8. Floating-Point Filter for the Line Intersection Algorithm

    • Andras Frankel, Doron Nussbaum, Jörg-Rudiger Sack
    Pages 94-105

  9. Project Lachesis: Parsing and Modeling Location Histories

    • Ramaswamy Hariharan, Kentaro Toyama
    Pages 106-124

  10. The SPIRIT Spatial Search Engine: Architecture, Ontologies and Spatial Indexing

    • Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. Abdelmoty, David Finch, Gaihua Fu, Subodh Vaid
    Pages 125-139

  11. Comparing Exact and Approximate Spatial Auto-regression Model Solutions for Spatial Data Analysis

    • Baris M. Kazar, Shashi Shekhar, David J. Lilja, Ranga R. Vatsavai, R. Kelley Pace
    Pages 140-161

  15. Information Dissemination in Mobile Ad-Hoc Geosensor Networks

    • Silvia Nittel, Matt Duckham, Lars Kulik
    Pages 206-222

  16. Public Commons of Geographic Data: Research and Development Challenges

    • Harlan Onsrud, Gilberto Camara, James Campbell, Narnindi Sharad Chakravarthy
    Pages 223-238

  17. Alternative Buffer Formation

    • Gary M. Pereira
    Pages 239-250

  18. Effect of Category Aggregation on Map Comparison

    • Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr., Nicholas R. Malizia
    Pages 251-268

  19. Simplifying Sets of Events by Selecting Temporal Relations

    • Andrea Rodríguez, Nico Van de Weghe, Philippe De Maeyer
    Pages 269-284
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This section gives a description of notions used throughout this study. Current achievements in developing action-centered ontologies are also discussed. 2.1 Ontologies In the context of information extraction and retrieval, different kinds of ontologies can be distinguished [15]: • Top-level ontologies describe very general concepts like space and time, not depending on a particular domain, • Domain ontologies and task ontologies describe the vocabulary related to a generic domain or kind of task, detailing the terms used in the top-level ontology, • Application ontologies describe the concepts that depend on the particular domain and task within a specific activity. Several investigations have been conducted to bring actions (tasks) to bear on - tologies. Among them are Chandrasekaran et al. [6] and Mizoguchi et al. [23] in the fields of AI and Knowledge Engineering. For the geospatial domain, Kuhn [21] and Raubal and Kuhn [26] have attempted to support human actions in ontologies for transportation. Acknowledging the importance of human actions in the geographic domain, a research workshop was held in 2002, bringing together experts from diff- ent disciplines to share the knowledge and work on this issue [1]. Camara [5], one of the workshop participants, has proposed that action-driven spatial ontologies are formed via category theory, for the case of emergency action plans.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis and Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, USA

    Max J. Egenhofer

  • SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Christian Freksa

  • University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

    Harvey J. Miller

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