Semantic Interoperability in Infrastructure Systems

Towards a Vision for Information Technology in Civil Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 475-487

  Karimi, Hassan A ^a   Akinci, Burcu ^b   Boukamp, Frank ^b   Peachavanish, Ratchata ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Infrastructure systems; Integrated project models; Semantic interoperability; Standardization

Indexed keywords

INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS; INTEGRATED PROJECT MODELS; SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SEMANTICS; STANDARDIZATION; STANDARDS;

INTEROPERABILITY;

EID: 1642412618     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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