Development of a systematic object-event data model of the database system for industrial wastewater treatment plant management

Journal of Environmental Informatics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 14-25

  Huang, W C ^a   Liaw, S L ^a   Chang, S Y ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Database; Industrial wastewater treatment plant; Systematic data integration; Systematic object event data model

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATABASE; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; SOFTWARE; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77954382091     PISSN: 17262135     EISSN: 16848799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3808/jei.201000162     Document Type: Article

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