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Using Semantic Web Technologies to Follow the Evolution of Entities in Time and Space

Authors:
Benjamin Harbelot
Helbert Arenas
Christophe Cruz

Keywords: spatio-temporal; semantics; GIS; perdurantism

Abstract:
In this paper we present the “continuum model”. Our work follows a “perdurantism” approach and is designed to handle dynamic phenomena extending the 4D-fluent with the use of semantic web technologies. In our approach we represent dynamic entities as constituted by timeslices each with semantic, geometric, temporal and identity components. Our model is able to link the diverse representations of an entity and allows the inference of qualitative information from quantitative one. The inference results are later added to the ontology in order to improve knowledge about the phenomenon. The model has been implemented using OWL and SWRL. Our preliminary results are promising and we plan to further develop the model in the near future to increase the suitable data sources.

Pages: 256 to 265

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2013. Used with permission.

Publication date: December 31, 2013

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2679