Designing a modular architecture for the structural geology ontology

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 397, Issue , 2006, Pages 269-282

  Babaie, Hassan A ^a   Oldow, John S ^b   Babaei, Abbed ^c   Avé Lallemant, Hans G ^d   Watkinson, A John ^e  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Domain ontology; Modular architecture; Structural geology; Uml

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; ONTOLOGY;

COMPONENT BASED; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES; GLOBAL NETWORKS; MODULAR ARCHITECTURES; ONTOLOGY DEVELOPMENT; RELATIONAL DATABASE; SUB-DISCIPLINES;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ARCHITECTURE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATABASE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

EID: 73849110270     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2397(21)     Document Type: Article

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