Abstract
This work discusses the supporting role of ontologies for geosensor network data focusing on methods for linking geosensor network datasets with ontologies. A major benefit gained from this kind of linking is the augmentation of databases with generalization or specialization relations from an ontology. We present methods for linking based on a transportation application where data on vehicle position is collected from sensors deployed along a road network and stored in a geosensor database. A mechanism for linking, implemented as a tab widget within the Protégé ontology editor, is introduced. This widget associates data values from the geosensor database with classes in the ontology and returns linked terms (i.e., matches) to the user as a set of equivalence relations.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
The Protégé Ontology Editor and Knowledge Base Framework, http://protege.stanford.edu/
Stefanidis, A., Nittel, S. (eds.): GeoSensor Networks, p. 296. CRC Press, Boca Raton (2005)
Pfoser, D., Jensen, C., Theodoridis, Y.: Novel approaches in query processing for moving object trajectories. In: VLDB, pp. 395–406 (2000)
Wolfson, O., Chamberlain, S., Kalpakis, K., Yesha, Y.: Modeling moving objects for location based services. Infrastructure for Mobile and Wireless Systems 2001, 46–58 (2001)
Stefanidis, A., Eickhorst, K., Agouris, P., Partsinevelos, P.: Modeling and comparing change using spatiotemporal helixes. In: Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, pp. 86–93 (2003)
Meka, A., Singh, A.: DIST: a distributed spatio-temporal index structure for sensor networks. In: Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Information and knowledge management, CIKM 2005, Bremen, Germany, pp. 139–146 (2005)
Pfoser, D., Jensen, C.: Trajectory indexing using movement constraints. GeoInformatica 9, 93–115 (2005)
Chen, J., Meng, X., Guo, Y., Grumbach, S., Sun, H.: Modeling and predicting future trajectories of moving objects in a constrained network. In: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Mobile Data Management. MDM 2006, p. 156. IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos (2006)
Dillenburg, J., Nelson, P., Wolfson, O., Yu, O., Sistla, A., McNeil, S., Ouksel, A., Xu, B., Ben-Arie, J.: Applications of a transportation information architecture. In: IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, vol. 1, pp. 480–485 (March 2004)
Cao, H., Wolfson, O.: Nonmaterialized Motion Information in Transport Networks. In: Eiter, T., Libkin, L. (eds.) ICDT 2005. LNCS, vol. 3363, pp. 173–188. Springer, Heidelberg (2004)
Wolfson, O., Jiang, L., Sistla, A., Chamberlain, S., Rishe, N., Deng, M.: Databases for Tracking Mobile Units in Real Time. In: Beeri, C., Bruneman, P. (eds.) ICDT 1999. LNCS, vol. 1540, pp. 169–186. Springer, Heidelberg (1998)
Forlizzi, L., Güting, R., Nardelli, E., Schneider, M.: A data model and data structures for moving objects databases. In: Proceedings of the 2000 ACM SIGMOD international Conference on Management of Data, Dallas, TX USA, pp. 319–330 (2000)
Güting, R., Schneider, M.: Moving Objects Databases. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco (2005)
Rodríguez-Tastets, M.: Moving Objects Databases. Encyclopedia of Database Technologies and Applications, 377–385 (2005)
Güting, R., Böhlen, M., Erwig, M., Jensen, C., Lorentzos, N., Schneider, M., Vazirgiannis, M.: A foundation for representing and querying moving objects. ACM Transactions on Database Systems 25, 1–42 (2000)
Xie, R., Shibasaki, R.: A unified spatiotemporal schema for representing and querying moving features. SIGMOD Record 34, 45–50 (2005)
Pfoser, D., Jensen, C.: Indexing of network constrained moving objects. In: Proceedings of the 11th ACM international Symposium on Advances in Geographic information Systems 2003, pp. 25–32 (2003)
Hornsby, K., Egenhofer, M.: Modeling moving objects over multiple granularities. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence 36, 177–194 (2002)
Vazirgiannis, M., Wolfson, O.: A Spatiotemporal Model and Language for Moving Objects on Road Networks. In: Jensen, C.S., Schneider, M., Seeger, B., Tsotras, V.J. (eds.) SSTD 2001. LNCS, vol. 2121, pp. 20–35. Springer, Heidelberg (2001)
Wolfson, O.: Moving objects information management: the database challenge. In: Halevy, A.Y., Gal, A. (eds.) NGITS 2002. LNCS, vol. 2382. Springer, Heidelberg (2002)
Mark, D., Skupin, A., Smith, B.: Features, Objects, and Other Things: Ontological Distinctions in the Geographic Domain. In: Montello, D.R. (ed.) COSIT 2001. LNCS, vol. 2205, pp. 489–502. Springer, Heidelberg (2001)
Smith, B., Mark, D.: Geographical categories: an ontological investigation. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 15(7), 591–612 (2001)
Fonseca, F., Egenhofer, M., Agouris, P., Câmara, G.: Using Ontologies for Integrated Geographic Information Systems. Transactions in GIS 6(3), 231–257 (2002)
Konstantinou, N., Spanos, D.-E., Chalas, M., Solidakis, E., Mitrou, N.: VisaVis: An approach to an intermediate layer between ontologies and relational database contents. In: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Web Information Systems Modeling: WISM 2006 (2006)
Yuan, A., Mylopoulos, J., Borgida, A.: Building Semantic Mappings from Databases to Ontologies. In: Proceedings of AAAI (2006)
Klein, M.: Combining and relating ontologies: an analysis of problems and solutions. In: Workshop on Ontologies and Information Sharing, IJCAI 2001, Seattle, USA (August 2001)
Miller, H., Shaw, S.: Geographic Information Systems for Transportation, p. 480. Oxford University Press, Oxford (2001)
Ding, Z., Guting, H.: Managing moving objects on dynamic transportation networks. In: Proceedings of the 16th international Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2004). SSDBM, pp. 287–296. IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos (2004)
Saltenis, S., Jenson, C., Leutenegger, S., Lopez, M.: Indexing the positions of continuously moving objects. ACM SIGMOD 2000, 285–289 (2000)
Gkoutos, G., Green, E., Greenaway, S., Blake, A., Mallon, A., Hancock, J.: CRAVE: A database, middleware and visualization system for phenotype ontologies. Bioinformatics 21(7), 1257–1262 (2004)
Euzenat, J., Loup, D., Touzani, M., Valtchev, P.: Ontology alignment with OLA. In: Third EON Workshop. Third International Semantic Web Conference, pp. 333–337 (2004)
Straccia, U., Troncy, R.: oMAP: Combining classifiers for aligning automatically OWL ontologies. In: Ngu, A.H.H., Kitsuregawa, M., Neuhold, E.J., Chung, J.-Y., Sheng, Q.Z. (eds.) WISE 2005. LNCS, vol. 3806, pp. 133–147. Springer, Heidelberg (2005)
Fridman, N., Musen, M.: PROMPT: Algorithm and tool for automated ontology merging and alignment. In: Proceedings of the Seventennth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Twelfth Conference on Innovative Application of Artificial Intelligence, pp. 450–455. AAAI Press / The MIT Press (2000)
An, Y., Mylopoulos, J., Borgida, A.: Building semantic mappings from databases to ontologies. In: Proceedings, The Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence an the Eighteenth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference. American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (2006)
Niles, I., Pease, A.: Towards a Standard Upper Ontology. In: Welty, C., Smith, B. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS-2001), Ogunquit, Maine, October 17-19, 2001 (2001)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Stewart Hornsby, K., King, K. (2008). Linking Geosensor Network Data and Ontologies to Support Transportation Modeling. In: Nittel, S., Labrinidis, A., Stefanidis, A. (eds) GeoSensor Networks. GSN 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4540. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79996-2_11
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79996-2_11
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-79995-5
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-79996-2
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)