Identity criteria and sortal concepts

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

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 234-243

  Carrara, Massimiliano ^a   Giaretta, Pierdaniele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conceptualisation; Identity Criteria; Knowledge Bases; Ontologies; Sortal Concepts

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; RELIABILITY; STANDARDIZATION;

SORTAL CONCEPT;

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION;

EID: 0035789551     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/505168.505191     Document Type: Conference Paper

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