A Reference System for Topological Relations between Compound Spatial Objects
A current trend in the development of spatial-relation ontologies is to capture more and more details about the geometries...
Using a Foundational Ontology for Reengineering a Software Enterprise Ontology
The knowledge about software organizations is considerably relevant to software engineers. The use of a common vocabulary for representing...
A Model for Geographic Knowledge Extraction on Web Documents
There is an increasing interest on doing research in the field of information retrieval which aims to incorporate new...
Multi-level Conceptual Modeling and OWL
Ontological metamodeling or multilevel-modeling refers to describing complex domains at multiple levels of abstraction, especially in domains where the...
A Semantic Approach to Describe Geospatial Resources
Geographic information systems (GIS) are increasingly using geospatial data from the Web to produce geographic information. One big challenge...
Preface to QoIS 2009
Read the full paper here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-04947-7_24
An Ontology-Based Framework for Geographic Data Integration
Ontologies have been extensively used to model domain-specific knowledge. Recent research has applied ontologies to enhance the discovery and...
Completeness in Databases with Maybe-Tuples
Some data models use so-called maybe tuples to express the uncertainty, whether or not a tuple belongs to a...
Modeling, Measuring and Monitoring the Quality of Information
Semantic properties that reflect quality criteria can be modeled by integrity constraints. Violated instances of constraints may serve as...
Evaluating the Functionality of Conceptual Models
Conceptual models serve as the blueprints of information systems and their quality plays decisive role in the success of...
