Title :
A proposal for a geographic ontology merging methodology
Author :
Châabane, Sana ; Jaziri, Wassim ; Gargouri, Faïez
Author_Institution :
MIRACL Lab., Sfax, Tunisia
Abstract :
In this paper, we present a methodology for merging geographic ontologies. The entry point of the proposed methodology is two geographical ontologies, it consists of three phases. The first phase is to establish a process of matching candidate ontologies. The outcome of this phase is a list of matching functions. The second phase is to find correspondences between concepts of candidate ontologies. The outcome of this phase is two lists: a list of matches and a list of unrelated concepts. The third phase is merging. The merging process is based on rules and produces as result a global ontology spatially and semantically richer.
Keywords :
geographic information systems; merging; ontologies (artificial intelligence); pattern matching; concept phase; geographic ontology merging methodology; matches list; matching phase; merging phase; unrelated concepts list; Assembly; Knowledge based systems; Laboratories; Merging; Ontologies; Proposals; Spatial databases; enrichment relationship; geographic ontology; identity relationship; mapping; matching; merging;
Conference_Titel :
Current Trends in Information Technology (CTIT), 2009 International Conference on the
Conference_Location :
Dubai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5754-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5756-4
DOI :
10.1109/CTIT.2009.5423116
