Semantic interoperability of distributed geo-services

Semantic interoperability of distributed geo-services

Lemmens, R.L.

Van Oosterom, P.J.M. (promotor)
De By, R.A. (promotor)

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2006-09-18

There is an increasing need for organisations to perform on demand geoprocessing tasks by integrating and reusing distributed geo-information and geo-services (typically provided as services on the web, such as interactive maps, route planners and geometric transformations). To enable sensible integration, computers require to operate with formal semantics of the services involved, making explicit the meaning of the service content. The research presented in the thesis provides solutions for the computer-aided integration of distributed heterogeneous geo-information and geo-services, based on their semantics. This is achieved by formally describing the geoservices with ontological concepts and reasoning with them in Description Logics. The target groups of this research are firstly geo-information engineers who are confronted with information integration issues and service interoperability issues, and secondly, information engineers in general confronted with distributed information and with end-users that need to access distributed services as one virtual application.

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