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Retrieval of Heterogeneous Geographical Information Using Concept Brokering and Upper Level Ontology

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Conceptual Modeling for Advanced Application Domains (ER 2004)

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Abstract

Different concept and attribute definitions for geographical features underlying information systems make it difficult to share geographical information. This paper provides concept brokering methods based on upper level ontology for retrieval of heterogeneous geographical information. The methods include design of upper level ontology using Concept Lattices. The user ontology is associated with domain ontology through upper level ontology by concept brokering rules. An example for the upper level ontology of transportation is given to illustrate the concept brokering methods.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore, 10 kent Ridge Cresent, Singapore, 119260

    Shanzhen Yi & Weng Tat Chan

  2. Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4, Canada

    Bo Huang

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  1. Key Laboratory of Data Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, (Renmin University of China), MOE, 100872, Beijing, P.R. China

    Shan Wang

  2. University of Kyoto, Japan

    Katsumi Tanaka

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Fudan University, 200433, China

    Shuigeng Zhou

  4. School of Computing, National University of Singapore,  

    Tok-Wang Ling

  5. Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tongji University, 201804, China

    Jihong Guan

  6. Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies (Peking University), Ministry of Education, China, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, China

    Dong-qing Yang

  7. Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Italy

    Fabio Grandi

  8. School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublinq, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

    Eleni E. Mangina

  9. College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, USA

    Il-Yeol Song

  10. Institute for Applied Informatics, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria

    Heinrich C. Mayr

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Yi, S., Huang, B., Chan, W.T. (2004). Retrieval of Heterogeneous Geographical Information Using Concept Brokering and Upper Level Ontology. In: Wang, S., et al. Conceptual Modeling for Advanced Application Domains. ER 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3289. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30466-1_16

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