An ontology-driven system architecture for precision agriculture applications

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies

Volumn 4, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 72-84

  Goumopoulos, Christos ^a   Kameas, Achilles D ^a   Cassells, Alan ^b  

^a University of Patras and Computer Technology Institute   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Ontology; Precision agriculture; Proactive computing; System architecture

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; ONTOLOGY; PRECISION AGRICULTURE;

AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM; AGRICULTURE APPLICATIONS; BIOLOGICAL STUDIES; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; PLANT BEHAVIOURS; PROACTIVE COMPUTING; SENSING MECHANISM; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 66949169960     PISSN: 17442621     EISSN: 1744263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMSO.2009.026256     Document Type: Article

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