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30-09-2017 | Original Article

A novel algorithm for fully automated mapping of geospatial ontologies

Authors: Sana Chaabane, Wassim Jaziri

Published in: Journal of Geographical Systems | Issue 1/2018

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Abstract

Geospatial information is collected from different sources thus making spatial ontologies, built for the same geographic domain, heterogeneous; therefore, different and heterogeneous conceptualizations may coexist. Ontology integrating helps creating a common repository of the geospatial ontology and allows removing the heterogeneities between the existing ontologies. Ontology mapping is a process used in ontologies integrating and consists in finding correspondences between the source ontologies. This paper deals with the “mapping” process of geospatial ontologies which consist in applying an automated algorithm in finding the correspondences between concepts referring to the definitions of matching relationships. The proposed algorithm called “geographic ontologies mapping algorithm” defines three types of mapping: semantic, topological and spatial.

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Metadata
Title
A novel algorithm for fully automated mapping of geospatial ontologies
Authors
Sana Chaabane
Wassim Jaziri
Publication date
30-09-2017
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Journal of Geographical Systems / Issue 1/2018
Print ISSN: 1435-5930
Electronic ISSN: 1435-5949
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10109-017-0263-0

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