Vague spatio-thematic query processing: A qualitative approach to spatial closeness

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 97-109

  Grütter, Rolf ^a   Scharrenbach, Thomas ^a   Waldvogel, Bettina ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ONTOLOGY;

FRAMES OF REFERENCE; HUMAN BEING; ONTOLOGY'S; QUALITATIVE APPROACH; QUALITATIVE CRITERIA; REGION CONNECTION CALCULUS; SPATIAL DIVISION; SPATIAL KNOWLEDGE; SPATIAL QUERIES; WEB ONTOLOGY LANGUAGE (OWL);

QUERY PROCESSING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA PROCESSING; GIS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA; TOPOLOGY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 77953979031     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2010.01185.x     Document Type: Article

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