A functional ontology of observation and measurement

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5892 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 26-43

  Kuhn, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Measurement; Observation; Ontology; Semantics; Sensors

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION PROCESS; MEASUREMENT STANDARDS; OBSERVATION; OBSERVATION AND MEASUREMENT; REFERENCE SYSTEMS; SEMANTIC DATA; SEMANTIC SENSORS; SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES;

SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; SENSORS;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 78650632044     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10436-7_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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