Ontologies for Urban Development

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Teller, Jacques (Editor), Lee, John R. (Editor), Roussey, Catherine (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 61
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

Action C21 of the European programme for Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research (COST—http://www.cost.esf.org/) is dedicated to investigating urban ontologies for an improved communication in urban civil engineering projects. The Action, known informally as "Towntology&qu...

Table of Contents:

• Ontologies for an Improved Communication in Urban Development Projects
• Keynote Reflections
• COST Action C20 Urban Knowledge Arena: Cross-boundary Knowledge and Know-how on Complex Urban Problems
• Pre-consensus Ontologies and Urban Databases
• How Formal Ontology can help Civil Engineers
• Urban Planning Ontologies
• Ontology for Land Development Decisions and Plans
• An Ontology-based Model for Urban Planning Communication
• Towntology & hydrOntology: Relationship between Urban and Hydrographic Features in the Geographic Information Domain
• Urban Morphology and Systems
• Visualizing the Uncertainty of Urban Ontology Terms
• Preliminary insights on continuity and evolution of concepts for the development of an urban morphological process ontology
• Theoretical approach to urban ontology: a contribution from urban system analysis
• A socio-cultural ontology for urban development
• Engineering Methods for Ontologies
• Investigating a Bottom-up Approach for Extracting Ontologies from Urban Databases
• Urban Ontologies: the Towntology Prototype towards Case Studies
• Building an Address Gazetteer on top of an Urban Network Ontology
• Architecture and Construction Sector
• “Pre-Ontology” Considerations for Communication in Construction
• Ontology Based Communications Through Model Driven Tools: Feasibility of the MDA Approach in Urban Engineering Projects
• Modelization of the conception and conception of the model in architecture.