TY - JOUR
T1 - Qualitative spatial reasoning methodology to determine the particular domain of a set of geographic objects
AU - Torres, Miguel
AU - Loza, Eduardo
AU - Al-Halabi, Wadee
AU - Guzman, Giovanni
AU - Quintero, Rolando
AU - Moreno-Ibarra, Marco
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2016/6/1
Y1 - 2016/6/1
N2 - Nowadays, there are many geospatial information from different sources such as satellite images, aerial photographs, maps, databases and others. They provide a comprehensive description of geographic objects. However, the task to identify the geographic domain is not an easy task, because it involves a semantic processing related to inference approaches that are based on the conceptualization of a domain. These approaches allow us to understand in a similar way that human beings recognize the geographic entities and help us to avoid vagueness and uncertainty. In this paper, a methodology to perform a qualitative spatial reasoning in geospatial representations is proposed. It is based on a priori knowledge, which is explicitly formalized by means of an application ontology. The knowledge described in the ontology is assessed according to a set of labels, belonging to any geographical domain for semantic analysis and mapping those labels to matching concepts defined in the ontology. As result, a set of geographic domains ordered by their relevance is obtained, providing a general concept directly related to the input labels, simulating the way that we perceive cognitively any geographic domain in the real world.
AB - Nowadays, there are many geospatial information from different sources such as satellite images, aerial photographs, maps, databases and others. They provide a comprehensive description of geographic objects. However, the task to identify the geographic domain is not an easy task, because it involves a semantic processing related to inference approaches that are based on the conceptualization of a domain. These approaches allow us to understand in a similar way that human beings recognize the geographic entities and help us to avoid vagueness and uncertainty. In this paper, a methodology to perform a qualitative spatial reasoning in geospatial representations is proposed. It is based on a priori knowledge, which is explicitly formalized by means of an application ontology. The knowledge described in the ontology is assessed according to a set of labels, belonging to any geographical domain for semantic analysis and mapping those labels to matching concepts defined in the ontology. As result, a set of geographic domains ordered by their relevance is obtained, providing a general concept directly related to the input labels, simulating the way that we perceive cognitively any geographic domain in the real world.
KW - Application ontology
KW - Conceptual framework
KW - Inference
KW - Qualitative spatial reasoning
KW - Semantic description
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U2 - 10.1016/j.chb.2016.01.034
DO - 10.1016/j.chb.2016.01.034
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:84957603117
SN - 0747-5632
VL - 59
SP - 115
EP - 133
JO - Computers in Human Behavior
JF - Computers in Human Behavior
ER -