Ontology for developing web sites for natural disaster management: Methodology and implementation

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 50-62

  Chou, Chen Huei ^a   Zahedi, Fatemeh Mariam ^b   Zhao, Huimin ^b  

^a School of Business   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster management; grounded theory; ontology design; qualitative analysis; schema integration; Web design

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; GROUNDED THEORY; ONTOLOGY DESIGN; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCHEMA INTEGRATION; WEB DESIGNS;

DESIGN; DISASTER PREVENTION; ONTOLOGY; PLANNING; QUALITY CONTROL; WEBSITES;

DISASTERS;

EID: 78349306441     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2010.2055151     Document Type: Article

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