The rapid flourishing of GIS applications has made the copyright protection and content
authentication of vector maps two important issues in the digital world. In this paper, a …

This chapter approaches QSTR from an application perspective. Considering the exemplary
application domains of robot navigation, GIS, and computer-aided design, the authors …

Spatial information takes different forms in different applications, ranging from accurate
coordinates in geographic information systems to the qualitative abstractions that are used …

In recent years the integration of spatial data coming from different sources has become a
crucial issue for many geographical applications, especially in the process of building and …

Multi-resolution spatial data always contain the inconsistencies of topological, directional,
and metric relations due to measurement methods, data acquisition approaches, and map …

This paper presents a novel algebraic workflow for topological voxelization of spatial
objects, construction of voxel connectivity graphs & hyper-graphs, and derivation of partial …

In this paper, we present a novel workflow consisting of algebraic algorithms and data
structures for fast and topologically accurate conversion of vector data models such as …

Sharing information through the web is a practice that many organizations and users do
daily. This generates a need of methodologies and tools for semantic integrating the …

Qualitative representation of spatial locations and their similarity measurements are
essential for the analysis of linguistic term‐based data. Existing methods have focused on …

The integration and matching of geographic ontologies is a field in which many efforts are
being employed. There are many proposals, addressing a diversity of features, both at the …