METHODOLOGY TO SUPPORT SEMANTIC RESOURCES INTEGRATION IN THE CONSTRUCTION SECTOR

Simona Barresi, Yacine Rezgui, Farid Meziane, Celson Lima

2006

Abstract

Ontologies, taxonomies, and other semantic resources, are used in a variety of sectors to facilitate knowledge reuse and information exchange between people and applications. In recent years, the need to access multiple semantic resources has led to the development of a variety of projects and tools aiming at integrating existing resources. This paper describes the methodology used during the FUNSIEC project, to develop an open infrastructure for the European Construction sector (OSIECS). This infrastructure aims towards facilitating integration among Construction related semantic resources, providing a base for the development of a new generation of e-services for the domain.

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Barresi S., Rezgui Y., Meziane F. and Lima C. (2006). METHODOLOGY TO SUPPORT SEMANTIC RESOURCES INTEGRATION IN THE CONSTRUCTION SECTOR . In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-43-6, pages 94-101. DOI: 10.5220/0002463500940101


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@conference{iceis06,
author={Simona Barresi and Yacine Rezgui and Farid Meziane and Celson Lima},
title={METHODOLOGY TO SUPPORT SEMANTIC RESOURCES INTEGRATION IN THE CONSTRUCTION SECTOR},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2006},
pages={94-101},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002463500940101},
isbn={978-972-8865-43-6},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - METHODOLOGY TO SUPPORT SEMANTIC RESOURCES INTEGRATION IN THE CONSTRUCTION SECTOR
SN - 978-972-8865-43-6
AU - Barresi S.
AU - Rezgui Y.
AU - Meziane F.
AU - Lima C.
PY - 2006
SP - 94
EP - 101
DO - 10.5220/0002463500940101