Semantic web rule languages for geospatial ontologies

Smart, Philip David, Abdelmoty, Alia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2031-4413 and El-Geresy, Baher A. 2009. Semantic web rule languages for geospatial ontologies. Giurca, Adrian, Gasevic, Dragan and Taveter, Kuldar, eds. Handbook of Research on Emerging Rule-Based Languages and Technologies: Open Solutions and Approaches, Hershey, PA: IGI Global, pp. 149-169. (10.4018/978-1-60566-402-6.ch007)

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Abstract

Geospatial ontologies have a key role to play in the development of the geospatial-Semantic Web, with regard to facilitating the search for geographical information and resources. They normally hold large volumes of geographic information and undergo a continuous process of revision and update. Limitations of the OWL ontology representation language for supporting geospatial domains are discussed and an integrated rule and ontology language is recognized as needed to support the representation and reasoning requirements in this domain. A survey of the current approaches to integrating ontologies and rules is presented and a new framework is proposed that is based on and extends Description Logic Programs. A hybrid representational approach is adopted where the logical component of the framework is used to represent geographical concepts and spatial rules and an external computational geometry processor is used for storing and manipulating the associated geometric data. A sample application is used to demonstrate the proposed language and engine and how they address the identified challenges.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Computer Science & Informatics
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Publisher:	IGI Global
ISBN:	9781605664026
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Last Modified:	29 Sep 2023 01:07
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/14094

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