Ontology is a significant research theme in GIScience. While some researchers believe that
the progress in GIScience is being directed through an engagement with the concept of …

Temporal information is crucial in electronic medical records and biomedical information
systems. Processing temporal information in medical narrative data is a very challenging …

The main objective of this thesis is to contribute to the theory of Conceptual Modeling by
proposing ontological foundations for structural conceptual models. Conceptual Modeling is …

This document describes COBRA-ONT, an ontology for supporting pervasive context-aware
systems. COBRA-ONT, expressed in the Web Ontology Language OWL, is a collection of …

7,146,399 B2* 12/2006 FOX et al..................... 709/203 databases and services or of query
syntax by the user. The 7,424,701 B2 9/2008 Kendall et al. same technologies that integrate …

This paper describes SOUPA (Standard Ontology for Ubiquitous and Pervasive
Applications) and the use of this ontology in building the Context Broker Architecture …

This paper discusses the construction of a modeling approach for dynamic geospatial
domains based on the concepts of object and event. The paper shows how such a model …

Representation and recognition of events in a video is important for a number of tasks such
as video surveillance, video browsing and content based video indexing. This paper …

An ontology is a claim on/for knowledge that attempts to model what is known about a
domain of discourse. A domain ontology does not aim to exhaustively list all concepts in a …

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the development and use of domain
ontologies, strongly motivated by the semantic Web initiative. However, as we demonstrate …