GRK 1498: Semantic Integration of Geospatial Information

通过这个国际研究培训小组，我们解决了在整合来自多个来源的地理空间信息以推理和支持有关人类环境的决策时出现的问题。这些问题将存在于支持跨年龄和跨文化的有效地理空间推理的总体研究挑战中。整个计划的共同科学主线是，雄心勃勃地为语义整合问题创造易于计算的解决方案。研究训练组将在地理空间信息整合领域创建一个国际英才中心。24名受资助的博士研究人员将在第一个月和19个月分两批12人参加该项目。明斯特和不来梅将从其他资源中至少再资助6名博士研究人员。布法罗将与12名博士研究人员一起参与。研究和资格认证计划将由22名教授指导，明斯特和不来梅各5名，布法罗12名，地理学、生态学、地球信息学、计算机科学、工业工程、语言学、哲学、人类学和认知科学系参与。该研究方案的目标是在地理空间信息集成的语义建模、信息发现、语义翻译和服务组合方面取得实质性进展。它被组织成六项研究计划，每一项都涉及所有三个网站的教授共同为博士研究人员提供建议。这些举措解决了总体挑战提出的具体研究问题。其中三个主要关注文化障碍，三个关注与年龄有关的问题。资格概念的前提是，课程工作应主要支持博士研究人员实现高水平的跨学科理解和合作。它与布法罗大学现有的地理信息科学IGERT项目相匹配，分为五个阶段，包括在布法罗为来自明斯特和不来梅的所有博士研究人员提供六个月的培训。每个阶段都包含几个进度监测里程碑，如论文提案、进度报告和出版物。许多参与教授的熟悉度，包括博士后支持在内的多边咨询程序，以及每个地点广泛的国际网络，将为参与的博士和博士后研究人员、合格研究员和研究学生提供前所未有的跨学科和国际经验。

With this International Research Training Group, we address problems arising when integrating geospatial information from multiple sources to reason and support decisions about the human environment. These problems will be situated in the overall research challenge of supporting effective geospatial reasoning across age and cultures. The common scientific thread of the entire programme is the ambition to create computationally tractable solutions to problems of semantic integration. The Research Training Group will create an international centre of excellence in the area of geospatial information integration. 24 funded doctoral researchers will enter the programme in two cohorts of 12, in months 1 and 19. Münster and Bremen will together fund at least six more doctoral researchers from other resources. Buffalo will participate with 12 doctoral researchers. The research and qualification programmes will be guided by 22 professors, five each at Münster and Bremen, and 12 at Buffalo, with participating departments of geography, ecology, geoinformatics, computer science, industrial engineering, linguistics, philosophy, anthropology and cognitive sciences. The research programme targets substantial progress on semantic modelling, information discovery, semantic translation and service composition for geospatial information integration. It is structured into six research initiatives, each involving professors at all three sites co-advising doctoral researchers. The initiatives address specific research questions posed by the overall challenge. Three of them focus mainly on cultural barriers and three on age-related issues. The qualification concept rests on the premise that course work should primarily support doctoral researchers in achieving a high level of interdisciplinary understanding and cooperation. It matches the existing IGERT programme in Geographic Information Science at the University at Buffalo and features five phases, including six months at Buffalo for all doctoral researchers from Münster and Bremen. Each phase contains several milestones for progress monitoring, such as thesis proposals, progress reports and publications. The familiarity among many participating professors, the multi-lateral advising process including postdoctoral support and the extensive international networks at each site will provide an unprecedented interdisciplinary and international experience to participating doctoral and postdoctoral researchers, qualifying fellows and research students.