Ontology-based approach to context representation and reasoning for managing context-sensitive construction information

Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 331-346

  Wang, Han Hsiang ^a   Boukamp, Frank ^b   Elghamrawy, Tarek ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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

Author keywords

Construction management; Context; Knowledge management; Ontology

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION INFORMATION; CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT; CONTEXT; CONTEXT REPRESENTATION; CONTEXT-SENSITIVE; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; INFORMATION-INTENSIVE INDUSTRIES; ONTOLOGY-BASED; PROJECT PARTICIPANTS; REASONING MECHANISM; RESEARCH EFFORTS; TEXTUAL DOCUMENTS;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MODELS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 80052791627     PISSN: 08873801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CP.1943-5487.0000094     Document Type: Article

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