This thesis aims to develop a domain-independent system for repairing faulty Datalog-like
theories by combining three existing techniques: abduction, belief revision and conceptual …

The chapter introduces the COST research action Modelling Real Property Transactions by
presenting its societal and scientific context, and developing on the research challenge. The …

Integrating spatial datasets from diverse sources is essential for cross‐border environmental
investigations and decision‐making. This is a little investigated topic that has profound …

This paper makes the case that the traditional three-tier client-server architecture requires a
major overhaul to address the changing and rapidly increasing information processing and …

Objective Geographic information technology is evolving from a Geographic Information
System to aGeographic Information Service, given the increasingly widespread use of the …

Because of the surprisingly increasing volume and complicated nature of remote sensing
images (RSIs), one of the main obstacles to realize efficient retrieval of the RSIs is the lack of …

Numerous authors have presented ontology building tools that have all been developed as
part of academic projects and that are usually adaptations of more generic tools for geo …

A geologic information system was utilized for geologic mapping in Korea using a
spatiotemporal ontology model. Five steps were required to make the GIS representation of …

Efficient information management and the processes therein become more and more
important within enterprises or when enterprises are merging together. Most information …

In the last decades, we have experienced a rapid increase in the number of available online
e-services. Agent-based computing has been advocated as a natural computational model …