Merging architectural, engineering, and construction ontologies

Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 109-128

  El Gohary, Nora M ^a   El Diraby, Tamer E ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Information and knowledge modeling; Integration; Knowledge based systems; Ontology merging; Project management; Semantic interoperability

Indexed keywords

FOCUS GROUPS; KNOWLEDGE MODELING; ONTOLOGY MERGING; SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY; WEB-BASED TOOLS;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTEROPERABILITY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MERGING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SEMANTICS;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 79952293558     PISSN: 08873801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CP.1943-5487.0000048     Document Type: Article

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