Sustainable construction ontology development using information retrieval techniques

Congress on Computing in Civil Engineering, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 143-151

  Rezgui, Yacine ^a   Marks, Adam ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b EMBRY RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Construction management; Information management; Sustainable development; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT; CONSTRUCTION SECTORS; DATABASE SCHEMAS; DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES; ENERGY CALCULATION; ONTOLOGY DEVELOPMENT; SEMANTIC RESOURCES; SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION; TEXTUAL DOCUMENTS; UNITED KINGDOM; WELSH ASSEMBLY;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; DATA STRUCTURES; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION USE; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SEMANTICS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TAXONOMIES;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 80053154060     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/41182(416)18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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