An abductive, linguistic approach to model retrieval

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 17-31

  Gulla, Jon Atle ^a   Van Der Vos, Bram ^b   Thiel, Ulrich ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c FRAUNHOFER IPSI   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abduction; Conceptual modeling; Lexicon; Model retrieval; Reuse

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUERY LANGUAGES;

CONCEPTUAL MODELING; MODEL RETRIEVAL;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0031161936     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-023X(97)00008-6     Document Type: Article

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