Ontologies for modeling and simulation: Issues and approaches

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 259-264

  Fishwick, Paul A ^a   Miller, John A ^b  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^b University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; PETRI NETS; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB; XML;

ONTOLOGY; SEMAND WEB; TIMED PETRI NET; WEB-BASED MODELING;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 17744378407     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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