Bottom-up construction of ontologies

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 513-526

  Van Der Vet, Paul E ^b   Mars, Nicolaas J I ^a,b,c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Domain model; Hierarchical reasoning; Knowledge base management; Knowledge engineering; Knowledge integration; Ontology

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

BOTTOM-UP ONTOLOGY;

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0032120792     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/69.706054     Document Type: Article

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