Ontology-Driven Information Integration

Fred Fonseca, Max Egenhofer, and Clodoveu Davis
AAAI-2000 Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Granularity, Austin, TX, C. Bettini and A. Montanari (eds.), pp. 61-64, August 2000.

Abstract

Tneintegration of information of different kinds, such as spatial and alphanumeric, at different levels of detail is a challenge. While a solution is not reached, it is widely recognized that the need to integrate information is so pressing that it does not matter if detail is lost, as long as integration is achieved. This paper shows the potential for extraction of different levels of information, within the framework of ontology-driven geographic information systems.

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