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We first extract essential properties from multi-source geo-ontologies and use FCA to build a merged formal context. Second, the combined importance weight of each single attribute of the formal context is calculated by introducing the inclusion degree importance from rough set theory and information entropy; then a weighted formal context is built from the merged formal context. Third, a combined weighted concept lattice is established from the weighted formal context with FCA and the importance weight value of every concept is defined as the sum of weight of attributes belonging to the concept\u2019s intent. Finally, semantic granularity of concept is defined by its importance weight; we, then gradually reduce the weighted concept lattice by setting up diminishing threshold of semantic granularity. Additionally, all of those reduced lattices are organized into a regular hierarchy structure based on the threshold of semantic granularity. 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A case study is conducted to show feasibility and validity of this method and the procedure to integrate multi-source geo-ontologies.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e18110399","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,11,15]],"date-time":"2016-11-15T10:25:31Z","timestamp":1479205531000},"page":"399","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["A Concept Lattice for Semantic Integration of Geo-Ontologies Based on Weight of Inclusion Degree Importance and Information Entropy"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"Jia","family":"Xiao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Resources and Environment Science, Wuhan University, No.129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zongyi","family":"He","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Resources and Environment Science, Wuhan University, No.129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,11,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"86","DOI":"10.1145\/2611567","article-title":"Big data and its technical challenges","volume":"57","author":"Jagadish","year":"2014","journal-title":"Commun. 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