Matching Spatial Ontologies - A Challenge of Formalization

Sana Châabane, Faïez Gargouri

2013

Abstract

Ontology matching can be defined as the process of defining a set of functions for specifying correspondences between candidate concepts in order to discover similarities between two ontologies; it can be processed by exploiting a number of different techniques. In this paper, we present an approach of merging spatial ontologies which consists of three processes: “matching process”, “mapping process” and “merging process” and we focus on the matching process. Indeed we consider three kind of matching: semantic matching, topologic matching and geometric matching. For each type of matching, we formally define functions for specifying correspondences between candidate concepts.

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Châabane S. and Gargouri F. (2013). Matching Spatial Ontologies - A Challenge of Formalization . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-81-5, pages 355-360. DOI: 10.5220/0004623603550360


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@conference{keod13,
author={Sana Châabane and Faïez Gargouri},
title={Matching Spatial Ontologies - A Challenge of Formalization},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={355-360},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004623603550360},
isbn={978-989-8565-81-5},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2013)
TI - Matching Spatial Ontologies - A Challenge of Formalization
SN - 978-989-8565-81-5
AU - Châabane S.
AU - Gargouri F.
PY - 2013
SP - 355
EP - 360
DO - 10.5220/0004623603550360