Large scale ontology visualisation using ontology extraction

International Journal of Web and Grid Services

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 113-135

  Wouters, Carlo ^a   Dillon, Tharam ^b   Rahayu, Wenny ^a   Chang, Elizabeth ^c  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

ontology; ontology extraction methodology; ontology transformation; ontology visualisation; semantic web

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745010604     PISSN: 17411106     EISSN: 17411114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJWGS.2005.007552     Document Type: Article

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