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A Formal Framework for Modeling Topological Relations of Spatial Ontologies

Authors:
Sana Châabane
Faïez Gargouri
Wassim Jaziri

Keywords: Spatial Ontology; topological relations; road domain; formal rules; meta-OntologicalOnto; OntoRoad.

Abstract:
A spatial ontology adds to the components of a domain ontology spatial relations and spatial aspects of its concepts. Spatial relations are of two types: the metric relations and topological relations, expressing a link of interconnection between two spatial concepts. In this paper, we propose a formal modeling of topological relations of a spatial ontology. This formal model is called "meta-OntologicalOnto" which is a set of rules written in description logic. The "meta-OntologicalOnto" is used as a reference during the construction of the spatial ontology. The field of application of our work is the road domain whose ultimate goal is to obtain a road ontology named "OntoRoad".

Pages: 23 to 29

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: April 21, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4065

ISBN: 978-1-61208-269-1

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from April 21, 2013 to April 26, 2013