Despite the progress made, one of the main barriers towards the use of semantics is the lack
of background knowledge. Dealing with this problem has turned out to be a very difficult task …

Social networks allow users to collaborate with others. People of similar backgrounds and
interests meet and cooperate using these social networks, enabling them to share …

Environmental monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems are indispensable tools for
sustainable land management, especially in dry and fragile ecosystems. The reporting and …

Our work is settled in the context of the public administration domain, where data can come
from different entities, can be produced, stored and delivered in different formats and can …

The enhancement of the search capabilities of geo-spatial tools occupies one of the highest
positions in the agenda of the INSPIRE initiative. This can be done by equip** …

In this paper we propose a formal model which allows us to effectively represent and search
for recipes in online environments. The proposed model is an entity-relationship model that …

The Semantic Web enables people and computers to interact and exchange information.
Based on Semantic Web technologies, different machine learning applications have been …

The main focus of this paper is to present the SpatialCIM methodology to identify the spatial
coverage of the documents in the Brazilian geographic area. This methodology uses a …

Atualmente, é comum que usuários levem em consideração a localização geográfica dos
documentos, é dizer considerar o escopo geográfico que está sendo tratado no contexto do …

Geospatial ontologies may play an important role in facilitating access to location-based
information. But the design of content-rich geospatial ontologies is often cumbersome …