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Semantic Approach for Finding Suitable Commercial Business Location

Authors:
Miguel Felix Mata Rivera
Consuelo Varinia Garcia Mendoza
Omar Juarez
Roberto Zagal Flores

Keywords: Spatial Semantics; geographic domain conceptualization; axiomatic relation

Abstract:
Nowadays, in order to find the best suitable location for a commercial business is required to apply a market analysis in several steps. This research improves this process by applying spatial semantics. We define a methodology to find a list of candidates for the best commercial location business. Some parameters involved in spatial semantics and market analysis are: floating population, taxes cost, market competition, transportation, land use, geographical area, among many others. All of them should be evaluated with different methods. A list of semantics rules are defined to find possible location business, ontology is built based on the geographic and market conditions. Each one of places found complies with law restrictions, administrative and geographic requirements defined as input parameters. Additionally, it is possible to relax the parameters’ weight in order to obtain new results for possible locations. Proofs include results obtained in conjunction (semantic and market analysis) that shows better results that when these criteria are used in isolated way.

Pages: 20 to 25

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: September 29, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4510

ISBN: 978-1-61208-293-6

Location: Porto, Portugal

Dates: from September 29, 2013 to October 3, 2013