The basic formal ontology as a reference framework for modeling the evolution of administrative units

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 206-226

  Gantner, Felix ^a   Waldvogel, Bettina ^a   Meile, Rolf ^a   Laube, Patrick ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEROPERABILITY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

BASIC FORMAL ONTOLOGIES; DATA-SOURCE; GEOMETRIC DATA; INFORMATION SYSTEMS ONTOLOGIES; KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; ONTOLOGY'S; REFERENCE FRAMEWORKS; SWITZERLAND; UPPER ONTOLOGY;

ONTOLOGY;

ADMINISTRATIVE FRAMEWORK; DATA SET; DATABASE; GIS; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; MODELING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84875802048     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2012.01356.x     Document Type: Article

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