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An OWL2 Land Use Ontology: LBCS

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Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2011 (ICCSA 2011)

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This paper describes the “Land Based Classification Standards” (LBCS) OWL2 ontology used as a basic structure for the “City Information Modelling” (CIM) model developed within a larger research project aimed at developing a tool for urban planning and design. The main purpose is to provide semantic and computer-readable land use descriptions of geo-referenced spatial data, to make available programming strategies and design options to the participants of the urban development process. There are several advantages of transferring a Land use standard into a OWL2 land use ontology: it is modular, it can be shared and reused, it can be extended and data consistency can be checked, it is ready to be integrated, supporting the interoperability of different urban planning applications.

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  1. FAUTL, Lisboa, Portugal

    Nuno Montenegro & José Duarte

  2. LabMag—FCUL, Lisboa, Portugal

    Jorge Gomes & Paulo Urbano

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  1. Basilicata University Potenza, L.I.S.U.T. - D.A.P.I.T., 10, Viale dell’Ateneo Lucano, 85100, Potenza, Italy

    Beniamino Murgante

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, Via Vanvitelli, 1, 06123, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  3. Department of Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences, University of Cantabria,, Avda. de los Castros, s/n, Santander, C.P. 39005, Spain

    Andrés Iglesias

  4. School of Business Systems, Monash University, VIC 3800, Clayton, Australia

    David Taniar

  5. Department of Intelligent Informatics, Kyushu Sangyo University, 2-3-1 Matsukadai, 813-8503, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan

    Bernady O. Apduhan

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Montenegro, N., Gomes, J., Urbano, P., Duarte, J. (2011). An OWL2 Land Use Ontology: LBCS. In: Murgante, B., Gervasi, O., Iglesias, A., Taniar, D., Apduhan, B.O. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2011. ICCSA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6783. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21887-3_15

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