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Towards an Ontology Based Visual Query System

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This paper discusses an ontology based visual query system of Ecosystem Services Database. A new visual query languge for OWL is proposed.

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  1. Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, University of Vermont, 590 Main, Burlington, VT., 05405

    Serguei Krivov & Ferdinando Villa

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis,  

    Bertram Ludäscher

  2. University of Maryland, College Park, 20742, MD, USA

    Louiqa Raschid

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Krivov, S., Villa, F. (2005). Towards an Ontology Based Visual Query System. In: Ludäscher, B., Raschid, L. (eds) Data Integration in the Life Sciences. DILS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3615. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11530084_30

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