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ICSNW
2004
Springer
238views Database» more  ICSNW 2004»
13 years 11 months ago
Knowledge Sifter: Agent-Based Ontology-Driven Search over Heterogeneous Databases Using Semantic Web Services
Knowledge Sifter is a scaleable agent-based system that supports access to heterogeneous information sources such as the Web, open-source repositories, XML-databases and the emergi...
Larry Kerschberg, Mizan Chowdhury, Alberto Damiano...
GEOS
2007
Springer
14 years 15 days ago
Applying Spatial Reasoning to Topographical Data with a Grounded Geographical Ontology
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...
David Mallenby, Brandon Bennett
GIS
2002
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Handling semantic heterogeneities using declarative agreements
The focus of this paper is on interoperability issues to achieve data integration in distributed databases for geographic applications. Our concrete application is in the context ...
Isabel F. Cruz, Afsheen Rajendran, William Sunna, ...
DGO
2003
128views Education» more  DGO 2003»
13 years 7 months ago
A Study on Automatic Ontology Mapping of Categorical Information
Semantic heterogeneity of information is a major barrier of information and system interoperability. Defining ontology of data and mapping ontologies among heterogeneous informati...
Naijun Zhou
HICSS
1999
IEEE
193views Biometrics» more  HICSS 1999»
13 years 10 months ago
Web-based Access to Distributed High-Performance Geographic Information Systems for Decision Support
A number of applications that use GIS for decision support can potentially be enhanced by the use of high-performance computers, broadband networks and mass data stores. We descri...
Paul D. Coddington, Kenneth A. Hawick, Heath A. Ja...