Ontologies: Principles, methods and applications

Knowledge Engineering Review

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 93-136

  Uschold, Mike ^a   Gruninger, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FORMAL LANGUAGES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

ONTOLOGY;

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0030166318     PISSN: 02698889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0269888900007797     Document Type: Article

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