TY - GEN
T1 - Retrieving geospatial information into a Web-mapping application using geospatial ontologies
AU - Torres, Miguel
AU - Levachkine, Serguei
AU - Moreno, Marco
AU - Quintero, Rolando
AU - Guzmán, Giovanni
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Many types of information are geographically referenced and interactive maps provide a natural user interface to such data. However, the process to access and retrieve geospatial data presents several problems related to heterogeneity and interoperability of the geospatial information. Thus, information integration and semantic heterogeneity are not trivial tasks. Therefore, we propose a web-mapping system focused on retrieving geospatial information by means of geospatial ontologies and representing this information on the Internet. Moreover, a Multi-Agent System is proposed to deal with the process related to obtain the tourist geo-information, which aids in the information-integration task for several nodes (geographic sites) that are involved in this application. The agent system provides the mechanism to communicate different distributed and heterogeneous Geographic Information Systems and retrieves the data by means of GML description. Also, this paper proposes an interoperability approach based on geospatial ontologies matching that is performed by the Multi-Agent System in each node considered in the application. The retrieval mechanism is based on encoding the information in a GML description to link each geospatial data with a concept of the ontologies that have been proposed.
AB - Many types of information are geographically referenced and interactive maps provide a natural user interface to such data. However, the process to access and retrieve geospatial data presents several problems related to heterogeneity and interoperability of the geospatial information. Thus, information integration and semantic heterogeneity are not trivial tasks. Therefore, we propose a web-mapping system focused on retrieving geospatial information by means of geospatial ontologies and representing this information on the Internet. Moreover, a Multi-Agent System is proposed to deal with the process related to obtain the tourist geo-information, which aids in the information-integration task for several nodes (geographic sites) that are involved in this application. The agent system provides the mechanism to communicate different distributed and heterogeneous Geographic Information Systems and retrieves the data by means of GML description. Also, this paper proposes an interoperability approach based on geospatial ontologies matching that is performed by the Multi-Agent System in each node considered in the application. The retrieval mechanism is based on encoding the information in a GML description to link each geospatial data with a concept of the ontologies that have been proposed.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=39649122368&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-72830-6_28
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-72830-6_28
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:39649122368
SN - 9783540728290
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 267
EP - 277
BT - Agent and Multi-Agent Systems
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 1st KES International Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems - Technologies and Applications, KES-AMSTA 2007
Y2 - 31 May 2007 through 1 June 2007
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