Towards agent-augmented ontologies for educational VDC applications

Electronic Journal of Information Technology in Construction

Volumn 15, Issue , 2010, Pages 318-334

  Obonyo, Esther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Knowledge Management; Ontologies; Software Agents; Virtual Design and Construction.

Indexed keywords

AGENT PARADIGM; DOCUMENT ANNOTATION; DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES; IN-BUILDINGS; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; INTEGRATION SCHEME; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGY; VIRTUAL DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTIONS;

DESIGN; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SEMANTIC WEB; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 78649367790     PISSN: 14036835     EISSN: 14006529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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