Second International Workshop on Semantic-based Geographical Information Systems (SeBGIS'06)

Call for papers
Program
Slides of presentations
GIS Integration & GRID
Spatial Data Warehouses
Keynote presentation
Spatio-Temporal GIS
Semantic Similarity
Enhancing Usability
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GIS Integration & GRID


Matching schemas for geographical information systems using semantic information
Christoph Quix, Lemonia Ragia, Linlin Cai, Tian Gan
RWTH Aachen University, Aachen (Germany)
Towards a context ontology for geospatial data integration
Damires Souza, Ana Carolina Salgado, Patricia Tedesco
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (Brazil)
Spatial data access patterns in semantic grid environment
Vikram Sorathia, Anutosh Maitra
Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information & Communication Technology, Gujarat (India)

Spatial Data Warehouses


GeWOlap: A web based spatial OLAP proposal
Sandro Bimonte, Pascal Wehrle, Anne Tchounikine, Maryvonne Miquel
Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, Lyon (France)
Affordable web based spatio-temporal applications for ad-hoc decisions
Vera Hernández Ernst
Fraunhofer Institute AIS, Sankt Augustin (Germany)
Requirements specification and conceptual modeling for spatial data warehouses
Elzbieta Malinowski, Esteban Zimányi
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels (Belgium)

Keynote presentation


The ISO/TC 211 Geographic information/Geomatics
Jean Brodeur
Natural Resources Canada and Université Laval (Canada)

Spatio-Temporal GIS


A classification of spatio-temporal entities with respect to their location in space-time
Thomas Bittner, Maureen Donnelly
State University of New York at Buffalo, New York (USA)
Efficient storage of interactions between multiple moving point objects
Nico Van de Weghe, Frank Witlox, Anthony G. Cohn, Tijs Neutens, Philippe De Maeyer
Ghent University, Ghent (Belgium) &, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Implementing conceptual spatio-temporal schemas in object-relational DBMSs
Esteban Zimányi, Mohammed Minout
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels (Belgium)

Semantic Similarity


A semantic similarity model for mapping between evolving geospatial data cubes
Mohamed Bakillah, Mir Abolfazl Mostafavi, Yvan Bédard
Université Laval, Québec (Canada)
Query approximation by semantic similarity in GeoPQL
Fernando Ferri, Anna Formica, Patrizia Grifoni, Maurizio Rafanelli
IRPPS-CNR & IASI-CNR, Roma (Italy)
Sim-DL: Towards a similarity measurement theory for Description Logics in GIScience
Krzysztof Janowicz
University of Muenster, Muenster (Germany)

Enhancing Usability


A primer of geographic databases based on chorems
Robert Laurini, Françoise Milleret-Raffort, Karla Lopez
Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, Lyon (France)
A service to customize the structure of a geographic dataset
Sandrine Balley, Bénédicte Bucher, Thérèse Libourel
Institut Géographique National, Paris (France) & Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier, Montpellier (France)
Using semantic approach for a cataloguing service
Paul Boisson, Stéphane Clerc, Jean Christophe Desconnets, Thérèse Libourel
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Montpellier (France) & Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier, Montpellier (France)