SOWL: Spatio-temporal representation, reasoning and querying over the semantic web

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Batsakis, Sotiris ^a   Petrakis, Euripides G M ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

ontology; querying; reasoning; semantics; spatial representation; temporal representation

Indexed keywords

AREAS OF INTERESTS; DYNAMIC INFORMATION; FLUENTS; NATURAL LANGUAGE EXPRESSIONS; ONTOLOGY MODEL; QUALITATIVE RELATION; QUERYING; REASONING; RELATIONAL DATABASE; REPRESENTATION MODEL; SPACE AND TIME; SPATIAL RELATIONS; SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; SPATIO-TEMPORAL REASONING; SPATIOTEMPORAL INFORMATION; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; TEMPORAL INFORMATION; TEMPORAL REPRESENTATIONS; TIME INTERVAL;

HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; ONTOLOGY; QUERY LANGUAGES;

SEMANTIC WEB;

EID: 78249289647     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1839707.1839726     Document Type: Conference Paper

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