Ontology: Towards a new synthesis

Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Collected Papers from the Second International Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Smith, Barry ^a   Welty, Christopher ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b VASSAR COLLEGE   (United States)

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