An ontology-driven decision support system for land delivery in Zambia

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 10896-10905

  Abanda, Henry ^a   Ng'Ombe, Austine ^a   Tah, Joseph H M ^a   Keivani, Ramin ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ontology; Semantic Web technology; Zambian land delivery

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; COMMUNICATION MECHANISMS; COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; DELIVERY PROCESS; GLOBAL ECONOMICS; SEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGY; ZAMBIAN LAND DELIVERY;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; TECHNOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 79955628218     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.02.130     Document Type: Article

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