During the nineties of the last century, historians and computer scientists created together a
research agenda around the life cycle of historical information. It comprised the tasks of …

The present paper provides a review of two research topics that are central to geospatial
semantics: information modeling and elicitation. The first topic deals with the development of …

Abstract Knowledge graphs have gained increasing popularity in the past couple of years,
thanks to their adoption in everyday search engines. Typically, they consist of fairly static …

One of the key requirements to facilitate semantic analytics of information regarding
contemporary and historical events on the Web, in the news and in social media is the …

Crime event analysis (CEA) has become increasingly important in assisting humans in
preventing future crimes. A fundamental challenge in the research community lies in the …

One of the key requirements to facilitate the semantic analytics of information regarding
contemporary and historical events on the Web, in the news and in social media is the …

Trajectory data have been used in a variety of studies, including human behavior analysis,
transportation management, and wildlife tracking. While each study area introduces a …

Abstract The Geosciences and Geography are not just yet another application area for
semantic technologies. The vast heterogeneity of the involved disciplines ranging from the …

In this article, we describe a system that reads news articles in four different languages and
detects what happened, who is involved, where and when. This event-centric information is …

Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to be embodied in software agents, robots, and cyber-
physical systems that can understand the various contextual information of daily life in the …