Formal ontology: Foundation of domain knowledge sharing and reusing

Journal of Computer Science and Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 535-548

  Lu, Ruqian ^a,b,c,d   Jin, Zhi ^a,b  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Domain knowledge model; Formal ontology; Genetic algorithm; Knowledge sharing and reusing; Virtual domain model

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; EXPERT SYSTEMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GRAPH THEORY; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE MODELS; VIRTUAL DOMAIN MODELS;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036737746     PISSN: 10009000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02948822     Document Type: Article

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