Semantic resources integration and interoperability in the construction domain

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 3 LNBIP, Issue , 2008, Pages 336-347

  Barresi, Simona ^a   Rezgui, Yacine ^a   Lima, Celson ^b   Meziane, Farid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Ontology; Schema matching; Semantic resources

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

CONSTRUCTION SECTORS; E- SERVICES; INFORMATION EXCHANGES; OPEN SEMANTIC INFRASTRUCTURE; SCHEMA MATCHING; SEMANTIC RESOURCES; SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS;

INTEROPERABILITY;

EID: 70350184028     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77581-2_23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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