Ontology based object-oriented domain modelling: Fundamental concepts

Requirements Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 146-160

  Evermann, Joerg ^a   Wand, Yair ^b,c  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Business analysis; Object oriented modelling; Ontology; System analysis; UML

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

OBJECT ORIENTED MODELLING; ONTOLOGY; UNIFIED MODELLING LANGUAGE;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 19844380375     PISSN: 09473602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00766-004-0208-2     Document Type: Article

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