[CEUR Workshop Proceedings] Vol-518

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Terra Cognita 2009



Proceedings of the Terra Cognita Workshop , collocated with the 8th International Semantic Web Conference ( ISWC-2009 ), Washington DC, USA, October 26, 2009.

Edited by

Dave Kolas *
Nancy Wiegand **
Gary Berg-Cross ***

* BBN Technologies , Arlington, Virginia, USA
** University of Wisconsin - Madison , Land Information and Computer Graphics Facility, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
*** Knowledge Strategies, Potomac, Maryland, USA



Table of Contents

  1. Spatial Planning on the Semantic Web
    Radboud Winkels, Rinke Hoekstra and Erik Hupkes.
  2. A Qualitative Approach to Vague Spatio-Thematic Query Processing
    Rolf Grütter and Thomas Scharrenbach.
  3. Semantic Method of Conflation
    James Ressler, Eric Freese and Veleria Boaten.
  4. The Experience of Realizing a Semantic Web Urban Computing Application
    Emanuele Della Valle, Irene Celino and Daniele Dell'Aglio.
  5. The Space package: Tight Integration Between Space and Semantics
    Willem Robert van Hage, Jan Wielemaker and Guus Schreiber.
  6. A Transparent Semantic Enablement Layer for the Geospatial Web
    Krzysztof Janowicz, Sven Schade, Arne Broering, Carsten Kessler and Christoph Stasch.
  7. Towards Modelling the Intended Purpose of Ontologies: A Case Study in Geography
    Ronald Denaux, Anthony Cohn, Vania Dimitrova and Glen Hart.
  8. Efficient 3D and 4D Geospatial Indexing in RDF Stores with a Focus on Moving Objects
    Jans Aasman, Steve Haflich and Craig Norvell.


14-Oct-2009: submitted by Dave Kolas and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux
20-Oct-2009: published on CEUR-WS.org