ANALYSIS OF COMPETING DATA STRUCTURES: DOES ONTOLOGICAL CLARITY PRODUCE BETTER END-USER QUERY PERFORMANCE?

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 141-156

  Bowen, Paul L ^a   O’farrell, Robert A ^a   Rohde, Fiona H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

end user performance; information retrieval; Ontology

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS;

DATA STORE; END USER PERFORMANCE; END-USER QUERIES; END-USERS; INFORMATION REQUEST; LOGICAL MODELS; ONTOLOGY'S; QUERY PERFORMANCE; QUERY TOOLS; USER PERFORMANCE;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 33744791127     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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