Constructing consensus ontologies for the semantic web: A conceptual approach

World Wide Web

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 421-442

  Stephens, Larry M ^a   Gangam, Aurovinda K ^a   Huhns, Michael N ^a  

^a University of South Carolina   (United States)

Author keywords

Merging ontologies; Reconciling ontologies; Semantic bridging

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTICS; TERMINOLOGY; XML;

INFORMATION SOURCES; MERGING ONTOLOGIES; RECONCILING ONTOLOGIES; SEMANTIC BRIDGE;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 4444248157     PISSN: 1386145X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:WWWJ.0000040801.68204.2b     Document Type: Article

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