Frederico Torres Fonseca

Research Interests
Geographic Information Systems, Information Integration, Knowledge Representation
 
Biography
Dr. Fonseca finished his Ph.D. in 2001 in the Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering at the University of Maine. Since then, he has worked in three areas of research, geographic information science, information science, and information systems. His work is based on ontologies; theories that explain the world. His work on ontology-driven geographic information systems has been highly influential in the area as shown by a recent research award and by a total of more than 300 hundred citations according to Google Scholar. Dr. Fonseca received the 2006 Researcher Award by the University Consortium of Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) for the foundational work on ontologies in GIS.
Dr. Fonseca's work in information science addresses both philosophic and epistemological foundations of ontologies. Results to date include three papers in a flagship journal and a fellowship with a prominent NSF-funded research center, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to work in the development of an ontology layer on top of the center's research efforts on information gathering using geospatial electronic records. His work in the information systems area focuses on the use of ontologies in IS under a philosophical perspective. 
 
Selected Publications

1. Fonseca, F., J. Martin. 2007. Learning the Differences Between Ontologies and Conceptual Schemas Through Ontology-Driven Information Systems. Journal of the Association for Information Systems - Special Issue on Ontologies in the Context of IS 8(2):129-142.
   
2. Fonseca, F. 2007. The Double Role of Ontologies in Information Science. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(6):786-793.


3. Fonseca, F., M. A. Rodriguez. 2007. From Geo-Pragmatics to Derivation Ontologies: New Directions for the GeoSpatial Semantic Web. Transactions in GIS 11(3):313-316.


4. Fonseca, F., G. Camara. 2006. A Framework for Measuring the Interoperability of Geo-Ontologies.Spatial Cognition and Computation 6(4):307-329.


5. Fonseca, F., J. Martin. 2005. Play as the Way out of the Newspeak-Tower of Babel Dilemma in Data Modeling. Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2005). pp. 11-20. Las Vegas, NV.