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New forthcoming book

Geographic Knowledge Infrastructure:

Applications to Territorial Intelligence

and Smart Cities

By Robert Laurini

 

Within the knowledge society, for planning smart cities and smart territories, theoretical background of information technologies must be renovated with the support of knowledge technologies and especially geographic knowledge engineering. Indeed, geographic knowledge engineering, as city or territory infrastructure, by including multidisciplinary knowledge and citizen involvement, allows not only spatial reasoning but also evaluating various scenarios and alternatives for territorial intelligence governance.

 

CONTENTS (312 pages)

 

1 - From Geodata to Geographic Knowledge
2 - Knowledge Representation
3 - Towards Geographic Knowledge Systems
4 - Geographic Objects
5 - Geographic Relations
6 – Geographic Ontologies
7 - Complex Geographic Objects and Structures
8 - Gazetteers and Multilingualism
9 - Geographic Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
10 - Geographic Applicative Rules
11 - Geovisualization and Chorems
12 - GKS: Querying and Interoperability
13 - Knowledge as Infrastructure for Smart Governance

 
WILL BE PUBLISHED BY ISTE-ELSEVIER IN APRIL 2017.

ISBN 978-1-78548-243-4. See https://www.elsevier.com/books/geographic-knowledge-engineering/laurini/978-1-78548-243-4 

 
FOR INFORMATION

Please contact Dr Robert Laurini, Professor Emeritus at KSI, Illinois, USA and researcher at INSA-Lyon, University of Lyon, France.

 
Roberto.Laurini@gmail.com

http://www.laurini.net/robert/