Chin-Te Jung1, Chih-Hong Sun2, Min-Fang Lien3, Chih-Shyang Chang4, Wei-Jen Chung5, Hong-Yang Lin6, Ping-Ying Tsai7 1 Ph.D., Department of Geography, National Taiwan University, Taipei city, Taiwan, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, 106, Tel: +886-2-33665829,
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[email protected] MAKOCI: A WEB PORTAL FOR INTEGRATING AND SHARING GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SERVICES ABSTRACT. The lack of integration and KEYWORDS: Geographic Information Service, communication of various geographic Ontologies, Multi-agent System, Cyber infra- information services (GI services) has resulted structure in many duplication collection of earth observation data, and challenges of semantic INTRODUCTION interoperability. This paper proposes an ontology-based multi-agents platform, The explosive growth of the Internet in recent called MAKOCI (multi-agent knowledge years has led to significant advances in the oriented cyberinfrastructure), which acts as use of Web services, instead of conventional GI service one stop to manage, publish, software tools, for processing data and share, and discover GI services semantically.