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GeoSpatial Semantics

Third International Conference, GeoS 2009, Mexico City, Mexico, December 3-4, 2009, Proceedings

Editors:

  1. Krzysztof Janowicz

    1. Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

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  2. Martin Raubal

    1. Department of Geography, University of California, USA

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  3. Sergei Levashkin

    1. Centro de Investigacion en Computacion, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City, Mexico

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 5892)

Part of the book sub series: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI (LNISA)

Conference series link(s): GeoS: International Conference on GeoSpatial Sematics

Conference proceedings info: GeoS 2009.

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Table of contents (12 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Keynotes

    2. Towards Reasoning Pragmatics

      • Pascal Hitzler
      Pages 9-25

  3. Foundations of Geo-semantics

    2. The Case for Grounding Databases

      • Simon Scheider
      Pages 44-62

  4. Formal Representation of Geospatial Data

    1. Towards a Semantic Representation of Raster Spatial Data

      • Rolando Quintero, Miguel Torres, Marco Moreno, Giovanni Guzmán
      Pages 63-82

    2. Bottom-Up Gazetteers: Learning from the Implicit Semantics of Geotags

      • Carsten Keßler, Patrick Maué, Jan Torben Heuer, Thomas Bartoschek
      Pages 83-102

  5. Semantics-Based Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems

    1. Ontology-Based Integration of Sensor Web Services in Disaster Management

      • Grigori Babitski, Simon Bergweiler, Jörg Hoffmann, Daniel Schön, Christoph Stasch, Alexander C. Walkowski
      Pages 103-121

    2. A Spatial User Similarity Measure for Geographic Recommender Systems

      • Christian Matyas, Christoph Schlieder
      Pages 122-139

  6. Integration of Semantics into Spatial Query Processing

    1. SPARQL Query Re-writing Using Partonomy Based Transformation Rules

      • Prateek Jain, Peter Z. Yeh, Kunal Verma, Cory A. Henson, Amit P. Sheth
      Pages 140-158

  7. Geo-ontologies and Applications

    1. Towards an Ontology for Reef Islands

      • Stephanie Duce
      Pages 175-187

    2. Narrative Geospatial Knowledge in Ethnographies: Representation and Reasoning

      • Chin–Lung Chang, Yi–Hong Chang, Tyng–Ruey Chuang, Dong–Po Deng, Andrea Wei–Ching Huang
      Pages 188-203

  8. Back Matter

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on GeoSpatial Semantics, GeoS 2009, held in Mexico City, Mexico in December 2009. The 10 revised full papers presented together with 2 keynote speeches were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections foundations on geo-semantics; formal representation of geospatial data; semantics-based information retrieval and recommmender systems; integration of sematics into spatial query processing; and geo-ontologies and applications.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

    Krzysztof Janowicz

  • Department of Geography, University of California, USA

    Martin Raubal

  • Centro de Investigacion en Computacion, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City, Mexico

    Sergei Levashkin

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