Laurini R. Geographic Knowledge Infrastructure: Applications to Territorial Intelligence and Smart Cities

ISTE Press and Elsevier, 2017. — 306 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78548-243-4.This book studies the specific nature of geographic knowledge and the structure of geographic knowledge bases. Geographic relations, ontologies, gazetteers and rules are detailed as the basic components of such bases, and these rules are defined to develop our understanding of the mechanisms of geographic reasoning. The book examines various problems linked to geovisualization, chorems, visual querying and interoperability to shape knowledge infrastructure for smart governance.Provides geographic business rules
Presents information on multi-actor, multicriteria decision support systems
Examines various problems linked to geovisualization, chorems, visual querying and interoperability