| Casati R., Smith B., and Varzi, A. C., 1998, `Ontological Tools for Geographic Representation', this volume. |
....There can be many other dimensions of change during an entity s life span such as changing shape, location or thematic information. What is it that enables a geographic entity after any such change to be recognized as the one before (such a change) Notions of spatio3 Note that Casati et al. [10] pointed that in a full blown account of Ontology for Geographic Representation , the mereological primitive of parthood should really be a three place relation involving a temporal parameter. temporal continuity in geographic space holds a key to providing answer to such queries . As a step ....
R Casati, B. Smith, and A Varzi, `Ontological tools for geographic representation ', in Formal Ontology in Information System, ed., N. Guarino, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 77--85, IOS Press, (1998).
.... what is referred to by semantics in this text is the meaning of the concepts (such as: classes, attributes, values, relations) not the semantics of the spatial models (or semantics of space) For instance, Kuijpers et al. in [43] discuss semantics of two spatial models, or Casati et al. in [16]) depict the basis of geographic representation. Their concern is semantics of space and the way space and objects in space are represented, not the semantics of objects represented in a data set. Sheth (in [70] presents an overview of the interoperability issues. He divides the course of its ....
R. Casati, B. Smith, A. C. Varzi, Ontological Tools for Geographic Representation, in: Formal Ontology in Information Systems, edited by N. Guarino, pp. 77-85, IOS Press, 1998
....systems design 1 . Current applications areas are disparate, including enterprise integration [22,46] natural language translation [30,33] medicine [16] mechanical engineering [10] standardization of product knowledge [8,4,26] electronic commerce [32] geographic information systems [12], legal information systems 2 , biological information systems 3 . I shall use the generic term information systems, in its broadest sense, to collectively refer to these fields and application areas. In some cases, the term ontology is just a fancy name denoting the result of familiar ....
Casati, R., Smith, B., and Varzi, A. 1998. Ontological Tools for Geographic Representation. In N. Guarino (ed.) Formal Ontology in Information Systems. IOS Press (this volume).
....see [28, 36] For an AI perspective, see [5] See [17] for a discussion of the analogy. I myself believe that the cases, though conceptually different, admit of the same solution, namely that material constitution is identity, just as mereological composition is identity: see [57] See e.g. [7, 44] and [3, 6] respectively. These principles hold in the mereotopology of [14] for instance. On this see [23, 24] Thanks to Massimiliano Carrara and Barry Smith for helpful comments on a previous draft. ....
Casati R., Smith B., and Varzi, A. C., 1998, `Ontological Tools for Geographic Representation', this volume.
.... the ontologies underlying most geographic information systems, which rest on discretized metric world models, such an ontology must have the resources to represent the qualitative conceptual categories conveyed by natural language, along the lines set out in Smith 1995, Smith and Varzi (in press) Casati et al. 1998, Casati and Varzi 1994, 1996. Here we concentrate on ontological issues pertaining to geographic objects; our work thus parallels the studies of spatial relations set out in Mark and Egenhofer 1994, 1994a, 1995; and Egenhofer and Mark 1995. 2.3 Categorial vs. Accidental Predications Because ....
Casati, R., Smith, B., and Varzi, A. 1998 "Ontological Tools for Geographic Representation." in: Guarino (ed.), 77-85.
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