Conceptual modelling and ontology: Possibilities and pitfalls

Journal of Database Management

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1-20

  Weber, Ron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conceptual modelling; Conceptual modelling grammars; Decomposition; Information systems development; Ontology; Real world semantics; Representation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEMANTICS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

CONCEPTUAL MODELLING; CONCEPTUAL MODELLING GRAMMARS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT; ONTOLOGY; REAL WORLD SEMANTICS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0347541174     PISSN: 10638016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jdm.2003070101     Document Type: Article

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