An ontological engineering approach for integrating CAD and GIS in support of infrastructure management

Advanced Engineering Informatics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 71-88

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

^a THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CAD; GIS; Infrastructure management; Integration; Ontological engineering; Ontology; Semantic interoperability

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA TRANSFER; DECISION MAKING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTEGRATION; INTEROPERABILITY; SEMANTICS;

INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT; ONTOLOGICAL ENGINEERING; SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 33644681211     PISSN: 14740346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aei.2005.06.001     Document Type: Article

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