Internet-based integrated environmental assessment: Using ontologies to share computational models

Journal of Industrial Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 31-50

  Kraines, Steven ^a   Batres, Rafael ^b   Koyama, Michihisa ^c   Wallace, David ^d   Komiyama, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Knowledge engineering; Knowledge integration; Knowledge representation; Model integration; Ontological engineering; Semantic web

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION; MODEL INTEGRATION; ONTOLOGICAL ENGINEERING; SEMANTIC WEB;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTEGRATION; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SEMANTICS;

INTERNET;

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTERNET; MODELING; PLANNING METHOD;

EID: 24644463742     PISSN: 10881980     EISSN: 15309290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/1088198054821690     Document Type: Review

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