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COST ACTION C21 - TOWNTOLOGY
Urban Ontologies for an improved communication
in urban civil engineering projects


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Monday, 9th March 2009

   
8:30 Accreditation desk opens

9:00 Introduction

  COST Transport and Urban Developement: an overview
Thierry Goger

  The COST Action C21: aims and main results
Jacques Teller, Chairman of the COST Action C21

10:00 Break

10:30 Presentation of the COST C21 results

  Success stories in the use of ontologies to support software interoperability
Catherine Roussey
 

Ontologies : from existing urban sources to applications
Gilles Falquet

  Urban ontologies in use
Chris Tweed

14:00 Session 1 - Ontologies for improving communications in urban development

  User Evaluation of a software Interface for Communication in Urban Ontologies
Hyowon Ban and Ola Ahlqvist

  Updating plans: A historiography of decisions over time
Nikhil Kaza, Donovan Finn and Lewis D. Hopkins

  Exploring Informal and Adaptative Ontologies for Communicating Urban Time-Depth in Strategic Planning
Stephen Dobson

16:30 Session 2 - Domain applications of urban ontologies

  Knowledge management for more sustainable water systems
Stephen Mounce, Christopher Brewster, Richard Ashley and Louise Hurley

  Future perspectives in ontologies for urban regeneration
Francesco Rotondo

  Energy efficiency and the built form. Ontologies in the classification of urban characteristics
Simon Lannon and Orly Linovski

18:00 Break

20:00 Gala dinner

   
Tuesday, 10th March 2009
   
9:00 Session 3 - Ontologies and urban interoperability

  Ontology-based Models for improving the interoperability of 3D Urban Information
Claudine Metral, Roland Billen, Anne-Françoise Cutting Decelle and Muriel Van Ruymbeke

  Enabling Geolocating via ontologies
Aneta Jadwiga Florczyk, Francisco Javier Lopez-Pellicer, Rodolpho Rioja, Javier Nogueras-Iso and Francisco Javier Zarazaga-Soria

10:00 Break

  Spatio-temporel ontologies

  Combining Conceptual and Ontological Models for Representing Spatio-Temporal Data and Semantic Evolution in GIS
Chamseddine Zaki, Myriam Servières, Guillaume Moreau

10:30 Constructors of Geometric Primitives in Domain Ontologies for Urban Environments
J. Finat, J.D. Pérez-Moneo, F.J. Delgado, R. Garcia, J.J. Fernandez, J.I. San Jose ans J. Martinez

  Ontology-Based Analysis of Chat Conversations. An urban Development case

Stefan Trausan-Matu, Traian Rebedea

12:00 Lunch

14:00 Session 4 - Adaptative urban ontologies

  Bonaparte as an unwitting ontological operator of change
Eduardo Camacho-Hübner, Bernard Cornélis, Jacques Guyot, Gilles Falquet

 

Sustaining urban ontologies over long periods of time: the Urbamet experience
Gilles Falquet, Jacques Guyot, Jacques Teller

  ONTONEOLOGY: Handing new words for the city
Marc Ellenberg, Claire Jaffin

   
15:30 Break
   
16:00 Summary of the discussions by session chairs
General discussion about the future of urban ontologies