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Processes and Events in Dynamic Geo-Networks

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GeoSpatial Semantics (GeoS 2005)

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Traditional spatial information systems hold only a single state of the ‘real world’. However, geographic phenomena have not only static but dynamic characteristics. The work described in this paper contributes to the general research effort toward a generic ontology of dynamic geographic-scale phenomena and its application to the provision of modeling, analysis, and retrieval of data in a spatio-temporal GIS. These issues are addressed in this paper with reference to dynamic geo-networks, that is, networks embedded in a (2-dimensional) geographic space. After an introductory and motivational section, the basic ontological categories of events and states are discussed. The paper develops these ideas in the context of flows in dynamic geo-networks, and goes on to discuss the possible kinds of causal relations. The paper concludes with an overview of the results and pointers to further research directions.

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  1. School of Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QF, UK

    Antony Galton

  2. National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, University of Maine, Orono, ME, 04469, USA

    Michael Worboys

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  1. Center for Web Research, Chile

    M. Andrea Rodríguez

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, 851 South Morgan Street (M/C 152), 60607, Chicago, IL, USA

    Isabel Cruz

  3. National Polytechnic, Institute, Mexico, Centro de Investigacion en Computacion, Mexico

    Sergei Levashkin

  4. National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis and Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering, University of Maine, Boardman Hall, 04469-5711, Orono, ME, USA

    Max J. Egenhofer

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Galton, A., Worboys, M. (2005). Processes and Events in Dynamic Geo-Networks. In: Rodríguez, M.A., Cruz, I., Levashkin, S., Egenhofer, M.J. (eds) GeoSpatial Semantics. GeoS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3799. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11586180_4

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