Marinos Kavouras, Margarita Kokla

Theories of Geographic Concepts

Ontological Approaches to Semantic Integration

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Written by experts in the field, this book addresses theoretical, formal, and pragmatic issues of geographic knowledge representation and integration based on an ontological approach. The first part sets the context by emphasizing the importance of philosophical, cognitive, and formal theories in preserving the semantics of geographic concepts during ontology development and integration. Part two exhausts major theoretical issues related to the subject and part three analyzes a number of formal tools. Part four introduces a general framework with the necessary processes and guidelines to ontology integration and applies it to a number of ontology integration cases.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bsp Books Pvt. Ltd.
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780367387914
• ISBN-10: 0367387913
• Artikelnr.: 57781149

Autorenporträt

Kavouras, Marinos; Kokla, Margarita

Inhaltsangabe

The Context. Introduction. Geographic Ontologies. Semantic
Interoperability. Theoretical Foundations. Ontologies. Concepts. Semantics.
Formal Approaches. Knowledge Representation Instruments. Formal Concept
Analysis. Conceptual Graphs. Channel Theory. Description Logics. Natural
Language and Semantic Information Extraction. Similarity. OntologY
Integration. Integration Framework. Integration Approaches. Integration
Guidelines. POST-REVIEW. Epilogue.