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Visualizing the Uncertainty of Urban Ontology Terms

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Ontologies for Urban Development

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  1. Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, 1049B Derby Hall, 154 N Oval Mall, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA

    Hyowon Ban

  2. Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, 1049B Derby Hall, 154 N Oval Mall, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA

    Ola Ahlqvist

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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

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Ban, H., Ahlqvist, O. (2007). Visualizing the Uncertainty of Urban Ontology Terms. 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_8

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