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FOIS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Many geographic terms, such as "river" and "lake", are vague, with no clear boundaries of application. In particular, the spatial extent of such features is oft...
GEOS
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2007
Springer
Abstract. Grounding an ontology upon geographical data has been proposed as a method of handling the vagueness in the domain more effectively. In order to do this, we require meth...
COSIT
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
Abstract. Ontologies are a common approach to improve semantic interoperability by explicitly specifying the vocabulary used by a particular information community. Complex expressi...
W2GIS
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2007
Springer
This paper is motivated by the problem of how to provide better access to ever enlarging collections of digital images. The paper opens by examining the concept of place in geograp...
ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
We present a general method for agents using ontologies as part of their knowledge representation to teach each other concepts to improve their communication and thus cooperation ...