Modelling Metropolitan Activity through Abductive Reasoning on Geographic Space

This paper proposes a novel approach to define geographic space focusing on the integration of a common geographical specification of the space with complex semantics aimed at a more active role of the space inside information processing tasks. Generic data (called Activity) is processed in the space model in order to retrieve a well defined behaviour of the parameters of interest in the target spaces. A domain-specific semantic understanding of the whole data ecosystem allows one to overcome unrealistic assumptions to switch to an effective reasoning on the space.