GeoSpatial semantics : third international conference, GeoS 2009, Mexico City, Mexico, December 3-4, 2009 : proceedings / / Krzysztof Janowicz, Martin Raubal, Sergei Levashkin (eds.)

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910482963803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; ; New York, : Springer, c2009
• ISBN: 3-642-10436-3
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2009.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (X, 205 p.)
• Collana: Lecture notes in computer science, , 0302-9743 ; ; 5892
• Classificazione: DAT 616f; GEO 007f; SS 4800
• Altri autori (Persone): JanowiczKrzysztof; LevashkinSergei; RaubalMartin M. <1968->
• Disciplina: 004n/a
• Soggetti: Geographic information systems; Geographical perception; Space perception
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Keynotes -- Multi-cultural Aspects of Spatial Knowledge -- Towards Reasoning Pragmatics -- Foundations of Geo-semantics -- A Functional Ontology of Observation and Measurement -- The Case for Grounding Databases -- Formal Representation of Geospatial Data -- Towards a Semantic Representation of Raster Spatial Data -- Bottom-Up Gazetteers: Learning from the Implicit Semantics of Geotags -- Semantics-Based Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems -- Ontology-Based Integration of Sensor Web Services in Disaster Management -- A Spatial User Similarity Measure for Geographic Recommender Systems -- Integration of Semantics into Spatial Query Processing -- SPARQL Query Re-writing Using Partonomy Based Transformation Rules -- iRank: Ranking Geographical Information by Conceptual, Geographic and Topologic Similarity -- Geo-ontologies and Applications -- Towards an Ontology for Reef Islands -- Narrative Geospatial Knowledge in Ethnographies: Representation and Reasoning.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third ; International Conference on GeoSpatial Semantics, GeoS 2009, held in Mexico City, Mexico in December 2009. The 10 revised full papers presented together with 2 keynote speeches were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections foundations on geo-semantics; formal representation of geospatial data; semantics-based information retrieval and recommender systems; integration of semantics into spatial query processing; and geo-ontologies and applications.