Combining mining and visualization tools to discover the geographic structure of a domain

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 460-484

  Mothe, Josiane ^a   Chrisment, Claude ^a   Dkaki, Taoufiq ^a   Dousset, Bernard ^a   Karouach, Saïd ^a  

^a IRIT   (France)

Author keywords

Data analysis; Domain knowledge; Geographical maps; Information mining; Information visualization; Knowledge discovery

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; METADATA;

DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; GEOGRAPHICAL MAPS; INFORMATION MINING; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

DATA MINING; GIS; MAP; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 33745273638     PISSN: 01989715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2005.09.004     Document Type: Article

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