A logical geo-ontology design pattern for quantifying over types

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 239-248

  Martínez, David Carral ^a   Janowicz, Krzysztof ^b   Hitzler, Pascal ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

geo ontology design patterns; geospatial semantics; heterogeneity; interoperability

Indexed keywords

BODY OF KNOWLEDGE; BUILDING BLOCKES; CRUCIAL TECHNOLOGY; DESIGN PATTERNS; DESIGN SOLUTIONS; GEO ONTOLOGIES; GEO-SPATIAL; GEOSCIENCES; HETEROGENEITY; HETEROGENEOUS DOMAINS; MODELING CONCEPTS; MODELING PROBLEMS; ONTOLOGY DESIGN; SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY; WEB ONTOLOGY LANGUAGE;

BIODIVERSITY; INTEROPERABILITY; REUSABILITY; SEMANTICS;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84872822965     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2424321.2424352     Document Type: Conference Paper

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