Example PhD

Practical Spatio-temporal Reasoning on the Semantic Web

Supervisor: Dr A.I. Abdelmoty

Keywords: Semantic Web technologies, Rule languages, Geospatial data management

References to geographic information on the web are now common in web content and in search queries. The growing use of this information on the web is deriving the need for ontology and rule languages to support their management and retrieval. Current ontology and rule languages, for example, OWL and RIF, are not designed for spatial or geospatial domains. This project will investigate frameworks and languages for representing and reasoning over geospatial information, and in particular, the integration of different types of reasoning to facilitate the manipulation of uncertain and incomplete information. The project will investigate how this reasoning can be integrated within the logic-based paradigm of the current semantic web languages.

Key Skills/Background: Open to Computing Graduates and postgraduates.

Contact: Dr A.I. Abdelmoty to discuss this research topic.