A study on the cognitive plausibility of sim-dl similarity rankings for geographic feature types

Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 115-134

  Janowicz, Krzysztof ^a   Keßler, Carsten ^a   Panov, Ilija ^a   Wilkes, Marc ^a   Espeter, Martin ^a   Schwarz, Mirco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Geographic feature types; SIM DL; Similarity measurement; Web Ontology Language

Indexed keywords

DATA DESCRIPTION; USER INTERFACES;

APPLICATION AREA; DESCRIPTION LOGIC; FEATURE TYPES; FORMAL REPRESENTATIONS; SIMILARITY MEASUREMENTS; SIMILARITY RANKINGS; SIMILARITY THEORY; WEB ONTOLOGY LANGUAGE;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 84883108692     PISSN: 18632351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-78946-8_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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