Geographic Information Science Third International Conference, GISci

This section gives a description of notions used throughout this study. Current achievements in developing action-centered ontologies are also discussed. 2.1 Ontologies In the context of information extraction and retrieval, different kinds of ontologies

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos New York University, NY, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Max J. Egenhofer Christian Freksa Harvey J. Miller (Eds.)

Geographic Information Science Third International Conference, GIScience 2004 Adelphi, MD, USA, October 20-23, 2004 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Max J. Egenhofer National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering University of Maine, Department of Computer Science 348 Boardman Hall, Orono, ME 04469-5711, USA E-mail: [email protected] Christian Freksa University of Bremen, Department of Mathematics and Informatics 28334 Bremen, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Harvey J. Miller University of Utah, Department of Geography 260 S. Central Campus Dr., Room 270, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-9155, USA E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2004114080 CR Subject Classification (1998): H.2.8, H.4, H.3, H.2, H.5, J.2 ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 3-540-23558-2 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer is a part of Springer Science+Business Media springeronline.com © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004 Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Olgun Computergrafik Printed on acid-free paper SPIN: 11331247 06/3142 543210

GIScience 2004 Third International Conference on Geographic Information Science Adelphi, MD, USA, October 20-23, 2004

Organizing Committee General Chair

Michael Goodchild (National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, Santa Barbara, CA, USA) Program Co-chairs Max Egenhofer (University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA) Christian Freksa (University of Bremen, Germany) Harvey Miller (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, US