Understanding, building and using ontologies

International Journal of Human Computer Studies

Volumn 46, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 293-310

  Guarino, Nicola ^a  

^a Istituto di Ingeneria Biomedica del CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DOMAIN ANALYSIS; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; ONTOLOGIES; PROBLEM SOLVING KNOWLEDGE;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 0031079258     PISSN: 10715819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ijhc.1996.0091     Document Type: Article

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