Theories of Geographic Concepts

Name: Theories of Geographic Concepts
Brand: CRC Press

CRC Press

Written by experts in the field, this book addresses theoretical, formal, and pragmatic issues of geographic knowledge representation and integration based on an ontological approach. The first part sets the context by emphasizing the importance of philosophical, cognitive, and formal theories in preserving the semantics of geographic concepts during ontology development and integration. Part two exhausts major theoretical issues related to the subject and part three analyzes a number of formal tools. Part four introduces a general framework with the necessary processes and guidelines to ontology integration and applies it to a number of ontology integration cases. > \nMost widely available approaches to semantic integration provide ad-hoc, non-systematic, subjective manual mappings that lead to procrustean amalgamations to fit the target standard, an outcome that pleases no one. Written by experts in the field, Theories of Geographic Concepts: Ontological Approaches to Semantic I.