An Ontological Approach to Meet Information Needs of Farmers in Sri lanka

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7971, Issue , 2013, Pages 228-240

  Walisadeera, Anusha Indika ^a,b   Ginige, Athula ^a   Wikramanayake, Gihan N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Agricultural information; Contextual information; Knowledge representation; Ontology; Ontology development

Indexed keywords

HISTORY; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION USE; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; LIFE CYCLE; MOBILE DEVICES; ONTOLOGY; TELEVISION BROADCASTING;

AGRICULTURAL INFORMATIONS; COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; GOVERNMENT WEBSITES; LOCAL CHARACTERISTICS; ONTOLOGICAL APPROACH; ONTOLOGY DEVELOPMENT; TELEVISION PROGRAMS;

AGRICULTURE;

EID: 84880730774     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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