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Towards Effective Geographic Ontology Matching

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GeoSpatial Semantics (GeoS 2007)

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The integration and matching of geographic ontologies is a field in which many efforts are being employed. There are many proposals, addressing a diversity of features, both at the concept as at the instance-level. In order to make clear the issues that are involved in the matching process, in this paper we present the formal definition of the heterogeneities that may occur when comparing two geographic ontologies. Some of the heterogeneities are common to the ones found in conventional ontologies integration, and some others are specific for the geographic field. Furthermore, we discuss some still open issues, neglected up to now, but very important to achieve good results in a real scenario.

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  1. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Instituto de Informática - Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500, 15064 Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Guillermo Nudelman Hess & Cirano Iochpe

  2. Università degli Studi di Milano, DICo - Via Comelico, 39, 20135 Milano, Italy

    Guillermo Nudelman Hess, Alfio Ferrara & Silvana Castano

  3. Procempa - Empresa da Tecnologia da Informação e Comunicação de Porto Alegre, Av. Ipiranga, 1200, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Cirano Iochpe

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Hess, G.N., Iochpe, C., Ferrara, A., Castano, S. (2007). Towards Effective Geographic Ontology Matching. In: Fonseca, F., Rodríguez, M.A., Levashkin, S. (eds) GeoSpatial Semantics. GeoS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4853. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76876-0_4

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