The framework of a geospatial semantic web-based spatial decision support system for Digital Earth

International Journal of Digital Earth

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 111-134

  Zhang, Chuanrong ^a   Zhao, Tian ^b   Li, Weidong ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Milwaukee   (United States)

^c HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Digital Earth; Geospatial semantic web; Ontology; Spatial decision support system (SDSS); Web services

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INTEROPERABILITY; ONTOLOGY; WEB SERVICES; WEBSITES;

COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION; DIGITAL EARTH; GEOSPATIAL SEMANTIC WEB; HETEROGENEOUS ONTOLOGY; HETEROGENEOUS SOURCES; SERVICES ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE; SPATIAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; WEB SERVICE COMPOSITION;

SEMANTIC WEB;

ALGORITHM; CONSERVATION; DATA PROCESSING; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DIGITAL MAPPING; INTERNET; SERVICE PROVISION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA;

EID: 77957349562     PISSN: 17538947     EISSN: 17538955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17538940903373803     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. An, Y., Borgida A., and Mylopoulos, J., 2005. Inferring complex semantic mappings between relational tables and ontologies from simple correspondences. In: Lecture notes in computer science for OTM confederated international conferences (Part II), Vol. 3761, 1152-1169.
2. Ashpole, B., et al, 2005. The Integrating Ontologies Workshop at K-CAP 2005. In: B. Ashpole, M. Ehrig, J. Euzenat and H. Stuckenschmidt (eds.), Proceedings of the KCAP 2005 workshop on integrating ontologies, Ban†, 2 October 2005, Canada.
3. Armstrong, M.P., 1993. Perspectives on the development of group decision support systems for locational problem solving. Geographical Systems, 1, 69-81.
4. Bhargava, H.K., Power, D.J., and Sun, D., 2007. Progress in Web-based decision support technologies. Decision Support Systems, 43, 1083-1095.
5. Carver, S.J., 1991. Integrating multi-criteria evaluation with geographic information systems. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems, 5, 321-339.
6. Casey, M.J. and Austin, M.A. 2002. Semantic web methodologies for spatial decision support. In: Proceedings of the international conference on decision support systems in the internet age-DSIAge2002, 3-7 July 2002, Cork, Ireland.
7. Castano, S., Ferrara, A., and Montanelli, S., 2006. Matching ontologies in open networked systems: techniques and applications. In: S. Spaccapietra, P. Atzeni, W.W. Chu, T. Catarci and K.P. Sycara, eds. Data semantics V, Lecture notes in computer science. Berlin: Springer, 25-63.
8. Chen, J. and Wu, L., 2003. Geospatial fundamental framework of digital China. Beijing: China Science Press.
9. Cheng, J.C., et al, 2000. Introduction to Digital Earth. Beijing: China Science Press.
10. Crosier, S.J., et al, 2003. Developing an infrastructure for sharing environmental models. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 30, 487-501.
11. Cruz, I.F. and Sunna., W., 2008. Structural alignment methods with applications to geospatial ontologies. Transactions in GIS, 12, 683-711.
12. Cruz, I.F., et al, 2007. A visual tool for ontology alignment to enable geospatial interoperability. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 18, 230-254.
13. Doan, A., et al, 2004. Ontology matching: a machine learning approach. In: S. Staab and R. Studer, eds. Handbook on ontologies, International handbooks on information systems. Berlin: Springer, 385-404.
14. Ehlers, M., 2008. Geoinformatics and digital earth initiatives: a German perspective. International Journal of Digital Earth, 1 (1), 17-30.
15. Euzenat, J. and Shvaiko P., 2007. Ontology matching. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
16. Foresman, T.W., 2008. Evolution and implementation of the Digital Earth vision, technology and society. International Journal of Digital Earth, 1 (1), 4-16.
17. Giunchiglia, F., Shvaiko, P., and Yatskevich, M., 2005. S-match: an algorithm and an implementation of semantic matching. In: Y. Kalfoglou, W.M. Schorlemmer, A.P. Sheth, S. Staab and M. Uschold, eds. Semantic interoperability and integration 04391. Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany: IBFI.
18. Giunchiglia, F. et al, 2008. Approximate structure-preserving semantic matching. In: Proceedings of the seventh conference on ontologies, databases, and applications of semantics (ODBASE), 11-13 November 2008, Monterey, Mexico, 1234-1253.
19. Goodchild, M.F., 2008. The use cases of digital earth. International Journal of Digital Earth, 1 (1), 31-42.
20. Goodchild, M.F. and Glennon, A., 2008. Representation and computation of geographic dynamics. In: K.S. Hornsby and M. Yuan, eds. Understanding dynamics of geographic domains. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 13-30.
21. Gore, A. 1998. The Digital Earth: understanding our planet in the 21st Century. Presented at the Californian Science Center, 31 January, Los Angeles, California.
22. Guo, H., Fan, X., and Wang, C., 2009. A digital earth prototype system: DEPS/CAS. International Journal of Digital Earth, 2 (1), 3-15.
23. Guo, H. 2008. Digital Earth Science Platform: DESP/CAS. The international archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences, Vol. XXXVII. Part B2. Beijing: ISPRS (International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing).
24. Guo, H.D., 1999. Earth observation and Digital Earth. Beijing: Chinese Science Press.
25. Hess, G.N., Iochpe, C., and Castano, S. 2006. An algorithm and implementation for GeoOntologies integration [online]. In: GEOINFO 2006, Campos do Jordão, Brazil. Available from: http://www.geoinfo.info/geoinfo2006/papers/p46.pdf [Accessed 6 May 2009].
26. Hess, G.N., Iochpe, C., and Castano, S., 2007a. Geographic ontology matching with iGMatch. Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Advances in Spatial and Temporal Databases, 4605, 185-202.
27. Hess, G.N., et al, 2007b. Towards effective geographic ontology matching. Lecture notes in computer science: The second international conference on geospatial semantics (GeoS 2007), Vol. 4853, 51-65.
28. Hu, W., Qu, Y., and Cheng, G., 2008. Matching large ontologies: a divide-and-conquer approach. Data & Knowledge Engineering, 67, 140-160.
29. Jankowski, P., et al, 1997. Spatial group choice: a SDSS tool for collaborative spatial decision making. International Journal of Geographic Information Science, 11, 577-602.
30. Jankowski, P., Andrienko, G.L., and Andrienko, N.V., 2001. Map-centered exploratory approach to multiple criteria spatial decision making. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 15, 101-127.
31. Janowicz, K., Wilkes, M., and Lutz, M., 2008. Similarity-based information retrieval and its role within spatial data infrastructures. Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Geographic Information Science, 5266, 151-167.
32. Jha, S., Palsberg, J., and Zhao, T., 2002. Efficient type matching. In: Proceedings of FOSSACS'02, foundations of software science and computation structures, 6-14 April, Grenoble, France.
33. Jian, N., et al, 2005. FalconAO: aligning ontologies with Falcon. In: B. Ashpole, M. Ehrig J. Euzenat and H. Stuckenschmidt, eds. Proceedings of the K-CAP 2005 workshop on integrating ontologies, Ban, 2 October 2005, Canada.
34. Li, D., 2001. Function of digital province and digital city in territorial planning and urban construction. Engineering. Journal of Wuhan University, 34, 47-59.
35. Li, Q. and Lin, S., 2001. Research on digital city framework architecture. In: Proceedings of ICII 2001, 29 October-1 November 2001, Beijing, China. Vol. 1, 30-36.
36. Malczewski, J., 1996. A GIS-based approach to multiple criteria group decision-making. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems, 10, 955-971.
37. Malczewski, J., 2000. On the use of weighted linear combination method in GIS: common and best practice approaches. Transactions in GIS, 4, 5-22.
38. McGuinness, D.L., et al, 2000. An environment for merging and testing large ontologies. In: Seventh international conference on principles of knowledge representation and reasoning (KR 2000), 483-493.
39. Nativi, S. and Domenico, B., 2009. Enabling interoperability for Digital Earth: earth science coverage access services. International Journal of Digital Earth, 2 (1), 79-104.
40. Noy, N.F., 2004. Tools for mapping and merging ontologies. In: S. Staab and R. Studer, eds. Handbook on ontologies. International handbooks on information systems. Berlin: Springer, 365-384.
41. Ostländer, N., 2004. Interoperable services for Web-based spatial decision support [online]. Available from: http://plone.itc.nl/agile-old/Conference/greece2004/papers/P-13-Ostlander. pdf [Accessed 6 May 2009].
42. Rinner, C., 2003. Web-based spatial decision support: status and research directions. Journal of Geographic Information and Decision Analysis, 7, 14-31.
43. Shvaiko, P. and Euzenat, J., 2005. A survey of schema-based matching approaches. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Journal of the Data Semantics IV, 3730, 146-171.
44. Stoilos, G., Stamou, G., and Kollias, S., 2005. A string metric for ontology alignment. In: Lecture notes in computer science for the international semantic web conference 2005. Vol. 3729. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 624-637.
45. Sycara, K., Klusch, M., and Lu, J., 2002. LARKS: dynamic matchmaking among heterogeneous software agents in cyberspace. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 5, 173-203.
46. Sycara, K., et al, 2004. Dynamic discovery and coordination of agent-based Semantic Web services. IEEE Internet Computing, 8 (3), 66-73.
47. Tang, J., et al, 2006. Using Bayesian decision for ontology mapping. Journal of Web Semantics, 4 (4), 243-262.
48. Vaccari, L., Shvaiko, P., and Marchese, M., 2009. A geo-service semantic integration in spatial data infrastructures. International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research, 4, 24-51.
49. Wang, M., et al, 2004. A Web-service agent-based decision support system for securities exception management. Expert Systems with Applications, 27, 439-450.
50. Yang, C., et al, 2008. Distributed geospatial information processing: sharing distributed geospatial resources to support Digital Earth. International Journal of Digital Earth, 1 (3), 259-278.
51. Zhang, C, et al, in press. Towards logic-based geospatial feature discovery and integration using web feature service and geospatial semantic web. International Journal of Geographical Information Science.
52. Zhang, C., Li, W., and Zhao, T., 2007. Geospatial data sharing based on geospatial semantic web technologies. Journal of Spatial Science, 52 (2), 35-49.
53. Zhang, C., Li, W., and Day, M., 2005. Towards establishing effective protective boundaries for the Lunan Stone Forest using an online spatial decision support system. Acta Carsologica, 34, 178-193.
54. Zhao, T., et al, 2008. Ontology-based geospatial data query and integration. Lecture notes in computer science for the fifth international conference on geographic information science 2008, Vol. 5266, 370-392.