From Geo- to Eco-ontologies

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2478, Issue , 2002, Pages 93-107

  Fonseca, Frederico ^a   Martin, James ^a   Rodríguez, M Andrea ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GLOBAL WARMING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; SEMANTICS;

ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS; GENERAL PUBLICS; GEOGRAPHIC ONTOLOGIES; MENTAL MODEL; POLITICAL INTEREST; REAL-WORLD; SEMANTIC HETEROGENEITY;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 23044532499     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45799-2_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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