GeoSpatial Semantics: 4th International Conference, GeoS 2011, Brest, France, May 12-13, 2011, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6631)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on GeoSpatial Semantics, GeoS 2011, held in Brest, France, in May 2011. The 13 papers presented together with 1 invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. The papers focus on formal and semantic approaches, time and activity-based patterns, ontologies, as well as quality, conflicts and semantic integration. They are organized in topical sections on ontologies and gazetteers, activity-based and temporal issues, models, quality and semantic similarities, and retrieval and discovery methods. Front Matter....Pages - Inter-disciplinary Interoperability for Global Sustainability Research....Pages 1-15 Improving Geodatabase Semantic Querying Exploiting Ontologies....Pages 16-33 A Supervised Machine Learning Approach for Duplicate Detection over Gazetteer Records....Pages 34-51 An Approach to the Management of Multiple Aligned Multilingual Ontologies for a Geospatial Earth Observation System....Pages 52-69 Identifying Geographical Processes from Time-Stamped Data....Pages 70-87 DO-ROAM: Activity-Oriented Search and Navigation with OpenStreetMap....Pages 88-107 Urban Area Characterization Based on Semantics of Crowd Activities in Twitter....Pages 108-123 On the (Limited) Difference between Feature and Geometric Semantic Similarity Models....Pages 124-132 A Facet-Based Methodology for Geo-Spatial Modeling....Pages 133-150 Advocacy for External Quality in GIS....Pages 151-165 Multi-criteria Geographic Information Retrieval Model Based on Geospatial Semantic Integration....Pages 166-181 A Description Logic Approach to Discover Suspicious Itineraries from Maritime Container Trajectories....Pages 182-199 Integration of Spatial Processing and Knowledge Processing Through the Semantic Web Stack....Pages 200-216 Towards Heterogeneous Resources-Based Ambiguity Reduction of Sub-typed Geographic Named Entities....Pages 217-234 Back Matter....Pages -