A visual tool for ontology alignment to enable geospatial interoperability

Journal of Visual Languages and Computing

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 230-254

  Cruz, Isabel F ^a   Sunna, William ^a   Makar, Nalin ^a   Bathala, Sujan ^a  

^a 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

Author keywords

Geospatial data; Information integration; Ontology alignment

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248330035     PISSN: 1045926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvlc.2007.02.005     Document Type: Article

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