From "Onto-GeoNoesis" to "Onto-Genesis": The design of geographic ontologies

GeoInformatica

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 285-302

  Tomai, Eleni ^a   Kavouras, Marinos ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Axioms; Geographic ontologies; Ontology generation; Semantic properties; Semantic relations

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS;

GEOGRAPHIC ONTOLOGIES;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

GIS;

EID: 3442878767     PISSN: 13846175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:GEIN.0000034822.47211.4a     Document Type: Article

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