Structural alignment methods with applications to geospatial ontologies

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 683-711

  Cruz, Isabel F ^a   Sunna, William ^a  

^a 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

Author keywords

Data integration; Geospatial ontologies; Ontology alignment; Semantic web

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; DATA INTEGRATION; SEMANTIC WEB;

ALIGNMENT METHODS; AUTOMATIC ALIGNMENT; GEOSPATIAL APPLICATIONS; GEOSPATIAL ONTOLOGIES; GRAPH STRUCTURES; INFORMATION SHARING; ONTOLOGY ALIGNMENT; ONTOLOGY'S; SEMANTIC-WEB; STRUCTURAL ALIGNMENTS;

ONTOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; DATA INVERSION;

EID: 57749187218     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2008.01126.x     Document Type: Article

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