Ontology of units of measure and related concepts

Semantic Web

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 3-13

  Rijgersberg, Hajo ^a   Van Assem, Mark ^b   Top, Jan ^a,b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Comparison; Ontology; OWL; Quantities; Units

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880724915     PISSN: 15700844     EISSN: 22104968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/SW-2012-0069     Document Type: Article

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