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Ontologies for Urban Development

  • Resent results in Ontologies in Urban Development
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI, volume 61)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Urban Planning Ontologies

    1. Ontology for Land Development Decisions and Plans

      • Nikhil Kaza, Lewis D. Hopkins
      Pages 47-59
    2. An Ontology-based Model for Urban Planning Communication

      • Claudine Métral, Gilles Falquet, Mathieu Vonlanthen
      Pages 61-72
    3. Towntology & hydrOntology: Relationship between Urban and Hydrographic Features in the Geographic Information Domain

      • Luis Manuel Vilches Blázquez, Miguel Ángel Bernabé Poveda, Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa, Asunción Gómez-Pérez, Antonio F. Rodríguez Pascual
      Pages 73-84
  3. Urban Morphology and Systems

    1. Visualizing the Uncertainty of Urban Ontology Terms

      • Hyowon Ban, Ola Ahlqvist
      Pages 85-94
    2. A socio-cultural ontology for urban development

      • Stefan Trausan-Matu
      Pages 121-130
  4. Engineering Methods for Ontologies

    1. Investigating a Bottom-up Approach for Extracting Ontologies from Urban Databases

      • Christophe Chaidron, Roland Billen, Jacques Teller
      Pages 131-141
    2. Urban Ontologies: the Towntology Prototype towards Case Studies

      • Chantal Berdier, Catherine Roussey
      Pages 143-155
    3. Building an Address Gazetteer on top of an Urban Network Ontology

      • J. Nogueras-Iso, F. J. López, J. Lacasta, F. J. Zarazaga-Soria, P. R. Muro-Medrano
      Pages 157-167
  5. Architecture and Construction Sector

    1. Ontology Based Communications Through Model Driven Tools: Feasibility of the MDA Approach in Urban Engineering Projects

      • R. Grangel, C. Métral, A. F. Cutting-Decelle, J. P. Bourey, R. I. M. Young
      Pages 181-196

About this book

Action C21 of the European programme for Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research (COST - http://www.cost.esf.org/) is dedicated to investigating urban ontologies for an improved communication in urban civil engineering projects. The Action, known informally as "Towntology", brings together a large and heterogeneous grouping from across Europe, whose interests range from construction to urban tourism and from transport infrastructure to resource visualisation. On 6-7 November 2006, in Geneva, the Action convened a successful workshop to address emerging issues in the field. This volume presents the contributions to that workshop, in many cases revised afterwards to capture some of the outcomes of discussion.

Many of these contributions are from members of the Towntology group, but there are also contributions from other European researchers, and from researchers in the US. The volume represents a valuable overview of major current issues in the field of urban ontologies and encapsulates many useful and different approaches. We hope that it will serve not only as a worthy outcome of Action C21, but also as a valuable resource for a wide range of researchers.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Lab. of Architectural Methodology, LEMA Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium

    Jacques Teller

  • School of Arts, Culture and Environment Graduate School, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

    John R. Lee

  • Laboratoire d'Informatique en Images et Systèmes d'information, Université de Lyon, Lyon

    Catherine Roussey

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ontologies for Urban Development

  • Editors: Jacques Teller, John R. Lee, Catherine Roussey

  • Series Title: Studies in Computational Intelligence

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71976-2

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-71975-5Published: 05 June 2007

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09114-8Published: 22 November 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-71976-2Published: 16 May 2007

  • Series ISSN: 1860-949X

  • Series E-ISSN: 1860-9503

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 212

  • Number of Illustrations: 86 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Mathematical and Computational Engineering, Artificial Intelligence

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