Conceptual modeling for data and knowledge management

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 137-168

  Mineau, Guy W ^a   Missaoui, Rokia ^b   Godinx, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CONCEPTUAL MODELING;

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0033898569     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-023X(99)00049-X     Document Type: Article

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