An ontology model to facilitate knowledge-sharing in multi-agent systems

Knowledge Engineering Review

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 41-60

  Tamma, Valentina ^a   Bench Capon, Trevor ^a  

^a Chadwick Building ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); INTERNET; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

KNOWLEDGE SHARING; ONTOLOGY;

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0346902138     PISSN: 02698889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0269888902000371     Document Type: Article

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