Ontology as a foundation for meta-modelling and method engineering

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 38, Issue 4 SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 281-287

  Wand, Yair ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Automated analysis; Meta modelling; Ontology; System modelling; Systems analysis methodologies

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

METAMODELLING; METHOD ENGINEERING; ONTOLOGY;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0030123346     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0950-5849(95)01052-1     Document Type: Article

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