Spatial Semantics for Better Interoperability and Analysis: Challenges and Experiences in Building Semantically Rich Applications in Web 3.0

Editor's Notes

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• #14: A mechanism to improve access to spatial information by allowing users
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• #37: Making sense of data from many sources in many form is challenging
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• #49: Observer - agent that executes an observation process.Observation Process – process of detecting qualities from stimuli, consisting of the following steps: (1) choose an observable quality, (2) find stimuli that are causally linked to the observable quality, (3) detect the stimuli, and (4) generate observation values. Observation values (or percepts) are symbols that represent the observed qualities in the physical world.Observation – action by an observer of executing the observation process
• #50: Perceiver - agent that executes a perception processPerception Process – process of detecting entities from observed qualities (abductive inference). Note that the perception process actually infers concepts (symbols) that represent entities in the physical world.Perception – action by a perceiver of executing the perception process
• #51: Quality – property in the physical world that may be observed (i.e., accessible to the senses through stimuli); qualities inhere in entities.Entity – object, event, or situation in the physicalworld (not directly accessible to the senses and must be inferred* from observations of qualities and background knowledge). *Actually, concepts (symbols) are inferred that represent entities in the physical world.Background knowledge – set of relations between qualities and entities known to a perceiver
• #52: Perception Cycle - a process that relates observers and perceivers; the observer communicates percepts to the perceiver, representing qualities that have been observed, and the perceiver communicates focus to the observer, representing qualities that should be observed. Percept – is a symbol that represents an observed quality (also sometimes called observation value).Focus – guides the observer towards only those qualities necessary for effective perception (in the form of a quality type).* Evaluation – in our experiments, we have shown that focus can reduce the number of observations necessary for perception by up to 50%.
• #53: Integration of the threeontologies discussed above: sensor/observation ontology relating observers (or sensors) to observable qualities, perception ontology relating perceivers to perceivable (inferable) entities, and domain ontology relating qualities and entities in the physical world
• #56: The top figure shows the results of executing the perception cycle for the 516 weather stations within a radius of 400 miles of the blizzard in Utah, and for each ordering of quality types. The horizontal axis represents the different orderings of observable qualities; p represents precipitation, w represents wind speed, and t represents temperature. The bottom figure shows the percentages of percepts generated during the perception cycle for different sets of observers (at different distances from the known blizzard) and for different orderings of quality types.
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• #66: Get all sensors using well known location names – Problem to be solve
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• #71: LOD Cloud is a way of sharing, exposing, and connecting pieces of data, information and knowledge on the Semantic Web using URI’s and RDFComprises of geographic, biological datasets etc
• #73: Linked Data explodes
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