Towards the Practical Use of Qualitative Spatial Reasoning in Geographic Information Retrieval

2006 3rd International IEEE Conference Intelligent Systems Pub Date : 2006-09-01 DOI:10.1109/IS.2006.348396

A. Abdelmoty, P. Smart, B. El-Geresy

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Geo-ontologies have a key role to play in the development of the geo-semantic Web, with regard to facilitating the search for geographical information and resources. They normally hold large amounts of geographic information and undergo a continuous process of revision and update to ensure their currency. Hence, means of ensuring their integrity are crucial and needed to allow them to serve their purpose. This paper proposes the use of qualitative spatial reasoning as a tool to support the development of a geo-ontology management system. Spatial integrity rules based on uniform and hybrid spatial reasoning are proposed for the automatic derivation of spatial relationships and for maintaining the spatial consistency of the geographic data. A framework for the representation of and reasoning over geo-ontologies is presented using the Web ontology language OWL and its associated reasoning tools. Spatial reasoning and integrity rules are represented using a spatial rule engine extension to the reasoning tools associated with OWL. To demonstrate the proposed approach, a case study showing a prototype geo-ontology and the implementation of the spatial reasoning engine is presented. This work is a step towards the realisation of a complete geo-ontology management system for the semantic Web

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定性空间推理在地理信息检索中的实际应用

地理本体论在地理语义网的发展中扮演着关键的角色，促进了地理信息和资源的搜索。它们通常拥有大量的地理信息，并经过不断的修订和更新以确保其流通。因此，确保其完整性的手段是至关重要的，并且需要使其能够实现其目的。本文提出使用定性空间推理作为工具来支持地理本体管理系统的开发。为了实现空间关系的自动推导和保持地理数据的空间一致性，提出了基于统一和混合空间推理的空间完整性规则。使用Web本体语言OWL及其相关的推理工具，提出了地理本体的表示和推理框架。空间推理和完整性规则使用与OWL相关的推理工具的空间规则引擎扩展来表示。为了演示所提出的方法，给出了一个展示原型地理本体和空间推理引擎实现的案例研究。这项工作是实现完整的语义Web地理本体管理系统的一步

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