Complex relationships and knowledge discovery support in the InfoQuilt system

VLDB Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 2-27

  Sheth, Amit ^a   Thacker, Sanjeev ^a   Patel, Shuchi ^a  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Complex relationships; Human directed knowledge discovery; Information correlation; Information request; Inter ontological relationships; Multi agent system; Semantic content; Semantic interoperability; Semantic web

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); METADATA; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 0038546763     PISSN: 10668888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00778-002-0071-z     Document Type: Article

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