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.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

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

in Bibtex Style

@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},
}

in EndNote Style

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