TY - BOOK ID - 5447999 TI - Intelligent Information Integration for the Semantic Web PY - 2004 SN - 3540286365 3540229930 PB - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Computer science. KW - Information theory. KW - Database management. KW - Information storage and retrieval systems. KW - Information systems. KW - Artificial intelligence. KW - Computer Science. KW - Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). KW - Database Management. KW - Information Storage and Retrieval. KW - Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet). KW - Theory of Computation. KW - Semantic Web KW - Electrical & Computer Engineering KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Telecommunications KW - Semantic Web. KW - Popular works. KW - Computers. KW - Information storage and retrieval. KW - Popular Science. KW - Popular Computer Science. KW - Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet). KW - Semantic integration (Computer systems) KW - Semantic networks (Information theory) KW - World Wide Web KW - Microformats KW - Information storage and retrieva. KW - Artificial Intelligence. KW - Communication theory KW - Communication KW - Cybernetics KW - AI (Artificial intelligence) KW - Artificial thinking KW - Electronic brains KW - Intellectronics KW - Intelligence, Artificial KW - Intelligent machines KW - Machine intelligence KW - Thinking, Artificial KW - Bionics KW - Cognitive science KW - Digital computer simulation KW - Electronic data processing KW - Logic machines KW - Machine theory KW - Self-organizing systems KW - Simulation methods KW - Fifth generation computers KW - Neural computers KW - Data base management KW - Data services (Database management) KW - Database management services KW - DBMS (Computer science) KW - Generalized data management systems KW - Services, Database management KW - Systems, Database management KW - Systems, Generalized database management KW - Automatic data storage KW - Automatic information retrieval KW - Automation in documentation KW - Computer-based information systems KW - Data processing systems KW - Data storage and retrieval systems KW - Discovery systems, Information KW - Information discovery systems KW - Information processing systems KW - Information retrieval systems KW - Machine data storage and retrieval KW - Mechanized information storage and retrieval systems KW - Computer systems KW - Electronic information resources KW - Data libraries KW - Digital libraries KW - Information organization KW - Information retrieval KW - Application software. KW - Informatics KW - Science KW - Automatic computers KW - Automatic data processors KW - Computer hardware KW - Computing machines (Computers) KW - Electronic calculating-machines KW - Electronic computers KW - Hardware, Computer KW - Calculators KW - Cyberspace KW - Application computer programs KW - Application computer software KW - Applications software KW - Apps (Computer software) KW - Computer software UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5447999 AB - The Semantic Web o?ers new options for information processes. Dr. Visser is dealing with twocore issuesin this area:the integrationofdata onthe sem- tic level and the problem of spatio-temporalrepresentation and reasoning. He tackles existing research problems within the ?eld of geographic information systems(GIS), thesolutionsofwhichareessentialfor animprovedfunction- ity of applicationsthat makeuse of the Semantic Web (e.g., for heterogeneous digitalmaps).Inaddition,theyareoffundamentalsigni?canceforinformation sciences as such. In an introductory overview of this ?eld of research, he motivates the - cessity for formal metadata for unstructured information in the World Wide Web. Without metadata, an e?cient search on a semantic level will turn out to be impossible, above all if it is not only applied to a terminological level but also to spatial-temporal knowledge. In this context, the task of infor- tionintegrationisdividedinto syntactic,structural,andsemanticintegration, the last class by far the most di?cult, above all with respect to contextual semantic heterogeneities. A current overview of the state of the art in the ?eld of information in- gration follows. Emphasis is put particularly on the representation of spatial and temporal aspects including the corresponding inference mechanisms, and also the special requirements on the Open GIS Consortium. ER -