Journal on Data Semantics III - Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Journal on Data Semantics

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Also available in print.; Electronic reproduction.; UK: MyiLibrary; 2008. Table of Contents: Geospatial Semantics: Why, of What, and How?.- Spherical Topological Relations.- GeoPQL: A Geographical Pictorial Query Language That Resolves Ambiguities in Query Interpretation.- A Fuzzy Identity-Based Temporal GIS for the Analysis of Geomorphometry Changes.- Interoperability for GIS Document Management in Environmental Planning.- Semantic Information in Geo-Ontologies: Extraction, Comparison, and Reconciliation.- Semantic Mappings in Description Logics for Spatio-temporal Database Schema Integration.- Data Semantics in Location-Based Services.- Geospatial conceptualisation: A Cross-Cultural Analysis on Portuguese and American Geographical Categorisations.

Contributor Bio:  Zimanyi, Esteban Esteban Zimanyi is a Professor and Director of the Department of Computer and Decision Engineering of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. His current research interests include business intelligence, geographic information systems, spatio-temporal databases, data warehouses, and Semantic Web. He has co-authored two books and co-edited four books in the domains of spatio-temporal modeling, spatio-temporal data warehouses, and business intelligence. Contributor Bio:  Spaccapietra, Stefano Stefano Spaccapietra is an honorary professor at the School of Computer and Communication Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he has been chairing the database laboratory for more than twenty years. Together with Christine Parent, he developed MADS, a conceptual spatio-temporal data model equipped with multi-representation support, which gained worldwide renown and has been used in several applications.