Ontologies are set to play a key role in the "Semantic Web", extending syntactic interoperability to semantic interoperability by providing a source of shared and precise...
Abstract. Flora-2 is a rule-based object-oriented knowledge base system designed for a variety of automated tasks on the Semantic Web, ranging from meta-data management to informat...
Many aspects of spatial language concerned with relationships between spatial entities are essentially vague. Current GIS technology provides very little support for dealing with ...
In this paper, we follow the role-based access control (RBAC) approach and extend it to provide for the dynamic association of roles with users. In our framework, privileges assoc...
Isabel F. Cruz, Rigel Gjomemo, Benjamin Lin, Mirko...
Geospatial information (GI) constitutes a significant portion of available data and are a key factor in planning and decision-making in a variety of domains,such as emergency man...