Analyzing theme, space, and time: An ontology-based approach

GIS: Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 147-154

  Perry, Matthew ^a   Hakimpour, Farshad ^a   Sheth, Amit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Data modeling; Domain ontology; Ontology; RDF; Spatial ontology; Spatial relationships; Spatio temporal thematic querying; Temporal ontology; Temporal relationships

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METADATA; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DATA MODELING; DOMAIN ONTOLOGY; SPATIAL ONTOLOGY; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL-THEMATIC QUERYING; TEMPORAL ONTOLOGY; TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIPS;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 34547438765     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1183471.1183496     Document Type: Conference Paper

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