Inducting Subcontractor Process Ontologies: Challenges, Methods, and Illustrative Results

Contruction Research Congress, Winds of Change: Integration and Innovation in Construction, Proceedings of the Congress

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 813-820

  O'Brien, William ^a   Issa, Raja R A ^a   Castro Raventós, Rodrigo ^a   Choi, Jaehyun ^a   Hammer, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FIRM PROCESSES; INDUCTING SUBCONTRACTOR PROCESS ONTOLOGIES; ONTOLOGY; TWO-PHASE INDUCTIVE METHODOLOGY;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA MINING; DATA STRUCTURES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROCESS CONTROL; PRODUCTIVITY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY;

EID: 2342419072     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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