A proposal for a geographic ontology merging methodology

Author

Châabane, Sana ; Jaziri, Wassim ; Gargouri, Faïez

Author_Institution

MIRACL Lab., Sfax, Tunisia

fYear

2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CTIT.2009.5423116

Filename

5423116