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
