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Handling Spatial Relations in Logical Concept Analysis To Explore Geographical Data

TitreHandling Spatial Relations in Logical Concept Analysis To Explore Geographical Data
Type de publicationConference Paper
Nouvelles publications2008
AuteursBedel, Olivier, Sébastien Ferré, and Olivier Ridoux
Nom du typeInt. Conf. Formal Concept Analysis
Année de publication2008
Mots clésconcept analysis, data retrieval, geographical data, logic, spatial relations
Résumé

Because of the expansion of geo-positioning tools and the democratization of geographical information, the amount of geo-localized data that is available around the world keeps increasing. So, the ability to efficiently retrieve informations in function of their geographical facet is an important issue. In addition to individual properties such as position and shape, spatial relations between objects are an important criteria for selecting and reaching objects of interest: e.g., given a set of touristic points, selecting those having a nearby hotel or reaching the nearby hotels. In this paper, we propose Logical Concept Analysis (LCA) and its handling of relations for representing and reasoning on various kinds of spatial relations: e.g., Euclidean distance, topological relations. Furthermore, we present an original way of navigating in geolocalized data, and compare the benefits of our approach with traditional Geographical Information Systems (GIS).

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