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Christopher B. Jones

Christopher B. Jones

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
30
Citations
4969
World Ranking
9753
National Ranking
614

Overview

Christopher B. Jones is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several interdisciplinary fields primarily within computer science, environmental science, and social sciences. Within these domains, their work extensively covers geographic information systems studies, speech and dialogue systems, and species distribution and climate change.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Computer Science
  • Environmental Science
  • Social Sciences

Subfields of study associated with their work are:

  • Geography, Planning and Development
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Ecology
  • Signal Processing

Key topics addressed in their publications involve:

  • Geographic Information Systems Studies
  • Speech and dialogue systems
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Data Management and Algorithms
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Topological and Geometric Data Analysis
  • Categorization, perception, and language

Christopher B. Jones has contributed to various publication venues, with multiple papers appearing in:

  • International Journal of Geographical Information Systems
  • Spatial Cognition and Computation
  • Transactions in GIS
  • PLoS ONE
  • Ecological Informatics

Their recent papers include:

  • Passive citizen science: The role of social media in wildlife observations, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Identifying wildlife observations on twitter, 2021, Ecological Informatics
  • Detecting geospatial location descriptions in natural language text, 2021, International Journal of Geographical Information Systems
  • Topological data analysis for geographical information science using persistent homology, 2023, International Journal of Geographical Information Systems
  • Predicting the environment from social media: A collective classification approach, 2020, Computers Environment and Urban Systems

Collaborative research is a significant component of their work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Kristin Stock
  • Padraig Corcoran
  • Thomas C. Edwards
  • Sarah E. Perkins
  • Mansi A. Radke

Best Publications

  • Geographical information retrieval

    Christopher B. Jones;Ross S. Purves

  • Modelling vague places with knowledge from the Web

    C. B. Jones;R. S. Purves;P. D. Clough;H. Joho

  • Map Generalization with a Triangulated Data Structure

    Christopher B. Jones;Geraint L . Bundy;Mark J. Ware

  • Geographical Information Systems and Computer Cartography

    Christopher B. Jones

  • Spatio-textual indexing for geographical search on the web

    Subodh Vaid;Christopher B. Jones;Hideo Joho;Mark Sanderson

  • Geographical Information Retrieval with Ontologies of Place

    Christopher B. Jones;Harith Alani;Douglas Tudhope

  • The SPIRIT spatial search engine: Architecture, ontologies and spatial indexing

    Christopher Bernard Jones;Alia Abdelmoty;David James Finch;Gaihua Fu

  • Ontology-Based spatial query expansion in information retrieval

    Gaihua Fu;Christopher B. Jones;Alia I. Abdelmoty

  • Spatial information retrieval and geographical ontologies an overview of the SPIRIT project

    Christopher B. Jones;R. Purves;A. Ruas;M. Sanderson

  • The design and implementation of SPIRIT: a spatially aware search engine for information retrieval on the Internet

    Ross S. Purves;Paul Clough;Christopher B. Jones;Avi Arampatzis

  • Geographical Information Retrieval.

    Christopher B. Jones;Ross S. Purves

  • Database design for a multi-scale spatial information system

    C. B. Jones;D. B. Kidner;L. Q. Luo;G. Ll. Bundy

  • Supported gold catalysts for the total oxidation of alkanes and carbon monoxide

    Benjamin Espriu Solsona;Tomas Garcia;Christopher Jones;Stuart Hamilton Taylor

  • Conflict Reduction in Map Generalization Using Iterative Improvement

    J. Mark Ware;Christopher B. Jones

  • Augmenting thesaurus relationships: possibilities for retrieval

    Douglas Tudhope;Harith Alani;Christopher B. Jones

  • Voronoi-Based Region Approximation for Geographical Information Retrieval with Gazetteers

    Harith Alani;Christopher Bernard Jones;Douglas Tudhope

  • Copper manganese oxide catalysts for ambient temperature carbon monoxide oxidation: Effect of calcination on activity

    Christopher Jones;Kieran J. Cole;Stuart H. Taylor;Mandy J. Crudace

  • Automated map generalization with multiple operators: a simulated annealing approach

    J. Mark Ware;Christopher B. Jones;Nathan Thomas

  • Data structures for three-dimensional spatial information systems in geology

    Christopher B. Jones

  • Web-based delineation of imprecise regions

    Avi Arampatzis;Marc J. van Kreveld;Iris Reinbacher;Christopher B. Jones

  • Geographic Information Retrieval: Progress and Challenges in Spatial Search of Text

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  • Computational Perspectives on Map Generalization

    Robert Weibel;Christopher B. Jones

  • Map generalization in the Web age

    Christopher Bernard Jones;J. Mark Ware

  • Maintaining Ontologies for Geographical Information Retrieval on the Web

    Christopher B. Jones;Alia I. Abdelmoty;Gaihua Fu

  • Building a Geographical Ontology for Intelligent Spatial Search on the Web

    Gaihua Fu;Christopher Bernard Jones;Alia Abdelmoty

  • A critical evaluation of ontology languages for geographic information retrieval on the Internet

    Alia I. Abdelmoty;Philip D. Smart;Christopher B. Jones;Gaihua Fu

  • Cartographic name placement with Prolog

    C.B. Jones

  • Evidence for Megalake Chad, north-central Africa, during the late quaternary from satellite data

    Marc J. Leblanc;Christian Leduc;Frank Stagnitti;Peter J. van Oevelen

  • Building place ontologies for the semantic web: issues and approaches

    A. I. Abdelmoty;P. Smart;C. B. Jones

  • Multi-source toponym data integration and mediation for a meta-gazetteer service

    Philip D. Smart;Christopher B. Jones;Florian A. Twaroch

Frequent Co-Authors

Ross S. Purves
Ross S. Purves University of Zurich
Harith Alani
Harith Alani The Open University
Paul Clough
Paul Clough University of Sheffield
Marc Leblanc
Marc Leblanc University of Avignon
Paul L. Rosin
Paul L. Rosin Cardiff University
Susanne Boll
Susanne Boll Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Mark Sanderson
Mark Sanderson RMIT University
Mor Naaman
Mor Naaman Cornell University
Graham J. Hutchings
Graham J. Hutchings Cardiff University
Stuart Hamilton Taylor
Stuart Hamilton Taylor Cardiff University

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