Supporting diagrammatic knowledge acquisition: An ontological analysis of Cartesian graphs

International Journal of Human Computer Studies

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 457-494

  Cheng, Peter C H ^a   Cupit, James ^a   Shadbolt, Nigel R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cartesian graphs; Diagrammatic representations; Knowledge acquisition; Ontologies

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); GRAPH THEORY; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPREADSHEETS; THERMODYNAMICS;

CARTESIAN GRAPHS; DIAGRAMMATIC KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; ONTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 0035323963     PISSN: 10715819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ijhc.2000.0455     Document Type: Article

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