A novel algorithm for fully automated mapping of geospatial ontologies

Sana Chaabane () and Wassim Jaziri ()
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Sana Chaabane: Sfax University
Wassim Jaziri: Sfax University

Journal of Geographical Systems, 2018, vol. 20, issue 1, No 4, 85-105

Abstract: Abstract Geospatial information is collected from different sources thus making spatial ontologies, built for the same geographic domain, heterogeneous; therefore, different and heterogeneous conceptualizations may coexist. Ontology integrating helps creating a common repository of the geospatial ontology and allows removing the heterogeneities between the existing ontologies. Ontology mapping is a process used in ontologies integrating and consists in finding correspondences between the source ontologies. This paper deals with the “mapping” process of geospatial ontologies which consist in applying an automated algorithm in finding the correspondences between concepts referring to the definitions of matching relationships. The proposed algorithm called “geographic ontologies mapping algorithm” defines three types of mapping: semantic, topological and spatial.

Keywords: Geospatial ontologies; Ontologies integration; Semantic mapping; Topological mapping; Spatial mapping (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Y8 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/s10109-017-0263-0

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