LEMA

Local Environment Management and Analysis

FIRST TOWNTOLOGY WORKSHOP
"Ontologies for Urban Development: Interfacing Urban Information Systems" - 6, 7 Novembrer 2006
University of Geneva

Tuesday 6/11

Presentation of the COST C21 Action
Jacques Teller, CERMA Ecole d'Architecture de Nantes, France

Keynote Speeches

The Cost Action C20: Urban Knowledge Arena
Henrik Nolmark, Urban Laboratory Gothenburg, Sweden

Ontologies and GIS
Robert Laurini, INSA Lyon, France

Session 1 - Urban Planning Ontologies

Chairman: Giuseppe Rabino, Politecnico di Milano

Ontology for Land Development Decisions and Plans
Nikhil Kaza, Lewis D. Hopkin - Department of Urban & Regional Planning University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Champaign

An Ontology-based System for Urban Planning Communication
Claudine Métral (*), Gilles Falquet, Mathieu Vonlanthen (*) Institut d'architecture (IAUG), University of Geneva, Switzerland

Towntology & hydrOntology: Relationship between Urban and Hydrographic Features in the Geographic Information Domain
Luis Manuel Vilches Blázquez (*), Miguel Ángel Bernabé Poveda, Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa, Asunción Gómez-Pé rez, Antonio Federico Rodríguez Pascua (*) Instituto Geográfico Nacional, Madrid, Spain.

Session 2 - Urban Morphology and Systems

Chairman: Jacques Teller, Université de Liège, Belgique

Visualizing the Uncertainty of Urban Ontology Terms
Hyowon Ban and Ola Ahlqvist Department of Geography, The Ohio State University

Continuity and evolution of ontologies for urban morphological processes
Eduardo Camacho-Hübner, François Golay LaSIG (Laboratoire de systèmes d'information géographique), EPFL, Lausanne

Building spatial ontology : a contribution from urban system analysis
Matteo Caglioni, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Università di Pisa, Italy

A socio-cultural ontology for urban development
Stefan Trausan-Matu , Politehnica University of Bucharest Computer Science Department

Wednesday 7/11

Keynote speeches

Ontologies in the Building sector
Guri Krigsvoll, SINTEF, Norway

How formal ontology can help civil engineers
Stefano Borgo, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Italy

Session 3 - Engineering Methods for Ontologies

Chairman: Kostas Karatzas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Investigating a bottom-up approach for extracting domain ontologies from urban databases
Christophe Chaidron (*), Roland Billen and Jacques Teller (*) Département de géomatique, Université de Liège, Belgique

Urban Ontologies: the towntology prototype towards case studies
Chantal Berdier, Catherine Roussey INSA de Lyon, France

Building an Address Gazetteer on top of an Urban Network Ontology
J. Nogueras-Iso, F.J. López, J. Lacasta, F.J. Zarazaga-Soria, and P.R. Muro-Medrano University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

Session 4 - Architecture and Construction Sector

Chairman: Guri Krigsvoll, Norwegian Building Research Institute

Pre-Ontology" Considerations for Communication in Construction
John Lee (*) and Dermott McMeel (*) University of Edinburgh, School of Arts, Edinburgh, UK

Ontology based communications through model driven tools: the MDA approach feasibility of the approach in urban engineering projects
A.F Cutting Decelle (*), J.P. Bourey, R. Grangel, R.I.M. Young (*) Industrial Engineering Research Laboratory, Ecole Centrale Paris, France

Modelization of the conception and conception of the model in architecture
Emmanuelle Pellegrino