Methodology to support semantic resources integration in the construction sector

ICEIS 2006 - 8th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Proceedings

Volumn ISAS, Issue , 2006, Pages 94-101

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CSTB   (France)

Author keywords

Ontology; Schema matching; Semantic resources

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION SECTORS; E-SERVICES; INFORMATION EXCHANGES; KNOWLEDGE REUSE; SCHEMA MATCHING; SEMANTIC RESOURCES;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; INTEGRATION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 77953898750     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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