Geographic Knowledge Engineering: Applications to Territorial Intelligence and Smart Cities
studies the specific nature of geographic knowledge and the structure of geographic …

The introduction of the Internet has revolutionized not only our society but also transformed
the software industry, with knowledge and information sharing becoming a central part of …

Different languages imply different visions of space, so that terminologies are different in
geographic ontologies. In addition to their geometric shapes, geographic features have …

Floods can cause significant damage and disruption as they often affect highly urbanized
areas. The capability of knowledge using and sharing is the main reason why the ontologies …

My final but most important task is to acknowledge all those people that have contributed in
the culmination of this thesis. Though it is nearly an impossible task to thank everybody who …

This paper explores a possible direction for enabling trans-national cooperation in Europe
through forms of spatial planning harmonisation. The specific case considered is that of the …

Web based, slippy, scalable maps are common place. Interacting with such digital maps at
varying levels of detail is key to interpretation, and exploration of different geographies. The …

To date, there are different ontologies for many domains and applications. Users can access
them to share information, reuse knowledge, and integrate data sources for several …

Currently, there is more and more interest in geo-spatial data sources providing rich
information about a huge number of interconnected geo-entities and points of interest …

The volume and potential value of user generated content (UGC) is ever growing. Multiply
sourced, its value is greatly increased by the inclusion of metadata that adequately and …