A conceptual modeling framework for expressing observational data semantics

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5231 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 41-54

  Bowers, Shawn ^a   Madin, Joshua S ^b   Schildhauer, Mark P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS;

CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DISCOVERY AND INTEGRATION; GENERIC CONCEPTUAL MODELS; MODEL FRAMEWORK; NEW APPROACHES; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; OBSERVATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS; SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE;

DATA INTEGRATION;

EID: 57049134672     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87877-3_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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