Modelling and representation of uncertain temporal information

Requirements Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 144-156

  Chountas, P ^a   Petrounias, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conceptual modelling; Factual and temporal uncertainty; Multiple information sources; Nested relational databases

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004138745     PISSN: 09473602     EISSN: 1432010X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007660070006     Document Type: Article

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