Towards the practical use of qualitative spatial reasoning in geographic information retrieval

IEEE Intelligent Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 71-76

  Abdelmoty, Alia I ^a   Smart, Philip ^a   El Geresy, Baher A ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geo ontologies; Geo semantic web; Geographic information retrieval; Spatial reasoning

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION THEORY; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY; SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; TOOLS;

AUTOMATIC DERIVATION; CASE STUDIES; CONTINUOUS PROCESSING; GEOGRAPHIC DATA; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION; HYBRID SPATIAL REASONING; INTERNATIONAL (CO); ONTOLOGY MANAGEMENT; PRACTICAL USE; QUALITATIVE SPATIAL REASONING; RULE ENGINES; RULES BASED; SPATIAL CONSISTENCY; SPATIAL REASONING; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIP ('MA' PERCEPTIVE DISTANCE); WEB ONTOLOGY LANGUAGE OWL;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 46249091620     PISSN: 15411672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/IS.2006.348396     Document Type: Conference Paper

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