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Investigating a Bottom-up Approach for Extracting Ontologies from Urban Databases

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Ontologies for Urban Development

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  1. Geomatics Unit, University of Liege, 17 Allée du 6-Août, B-4000, Liege, Belgium

    Christophe Chaidron

  2. Geomatics Unit, University of Liege, 17 Allée du 6-Août, B-4000, Liege, Belgium

    Roland Billen

  3. Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Lab. of Architectural Methodology, LEMA Université de Liège, 1 Chemin des Chevreuils, B52/3, 4000, Liège, Belgium

    Jacques Teller

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  1. Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Lab. of Architectural Methodology, LEMA Université de Liège, 1 Chemin des Chevreuils, B52/3, 4000, Liège, Belgium

    Jacques Teller

  2. School of Arts, Culture and Environment Graduate School, University of Edinburgh, Alison House, Nicolson Square, Edinburgh, UK

    John R. Lee

  3. Laboratoire d'Informatique en Images et Systèmes d'information, Université de Lyon, F-69003, Lyon

    Catherine Roussey

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Chaidron, C., Billen, R., Teller, J. (2007). Investigating a Bottom-up Approach for Extracting Ontologies from Urban Databases. In: Teller, J., Lee, J.R., Roussey, C. (eds) Ontologies for Urban Development. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 61. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71976-2_12

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