Using BWW model to evaluate building ontologies in CGs formalism

Information Systems

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 379-398

  Kayed, Ahmad ^a   Colomb, Robert M ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

BWW model; Conceptual structures; Information system; Meta model; Ontology

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BWW MODEL; CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; META-MODEL; ONTOLOGY;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 14544278312     PISSN: 03064379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.is.2004.03.002     Document Type: Article

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