Ecolingua: a Formal ontology for data in ecology

Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 60-78

  Brilhante, Virgínia ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

ecological data; engineering and application; model synthesis; Ontology reuse

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LOGIC; MODEL STRUCTURES;

ECOLOGICAL DATA; ECOLOGICAL MODELS; FIRST ORDER LOGIC; FORMAL ONTOLOGY; MODEL SYNTHESIS; ONTOLOGY REUSE; PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS; QUANTITATIVE DATA;

ECOLOGY;

EID: 58549097546     PISSN: 01046500     EISSN: 16784804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03192376     Document Type: Article

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