City infrastructure ontologies

Smart city ontologies: Improving the effectiveness of smart city applications

This paper addresses the problem of low impact of smart city applications observed in the fields of energy and transport, which constitute high-priority domains for the development of smart cities. However, these are not the only fields where the impact of smart cities has been limited. The paper provides an explanation for the low impact of various individual applications of smart cities and d...

Ontologies for a Global Language Infrastructure

With the recent developments of the Semantic Web and progresses of the associated methodologies and standards, demands for an open and distributed infrastructure for sharing language resources and technologies can be addressed now on a new basis (Buitelaar et al., 2003; Calzolari, 2008). In this article, we call such an infrastructure a global language infrastructure (GLI). GLI should accommoda...

Foundation Ontologies Requirements for Global City Indicators

City Indicators are metrics used to measure city performance. Global City Indicators, as developed by the Global Cities Institute at the University of Toronto, are metrics that have been agreed to by over 250 cities world wide and have been approved as ISO 37120. The definitions of the indicators exist only in written form. The purpose of this research is to provide an ontology for representing...

Physical-digital integration in city infrastructure

There is increasing recognition by researchers, businesses, and policymakers of the value of integrating the systems of systems of which cities are comprised. It is less clear how this can be achieved, in practice, from a technical and organizational standpoint. This paper is concerned with one element of this integration, namely, the integration of physical infrastructures and digital technolo...

Modularization of Ontologies WonderWeb: Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web