Granular partitions and vagueness

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

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 309-320

  Bittner, Thomas ^b   Smith, Barry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Granular Partitions; Ontology; Semantics; Vagueness

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ONTOLOGY;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 0035789845     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/505168.505197     Document Type: Conference Paper

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