On the foundations of UML as an ontology representation language

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 3257, Issue , 2004, Pages 47-62

  Guizzardi, Giancarlo ^a   Wagner, Gerd ^b   Herre, Heinrich ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FUNCTIONS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METADATA; QUALITY CONTROL; SET THEORY; SPECIFICATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MODELING LANGUAGES; SEMANTIC WEB;

COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEMS; GENERAL FORMAL ONTOLOGY (GFO); GENERAL ONTOLOGICAL LANGUAGES (GOL); UML CLASS DIAGRAMS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES; FOUNDATIONAL ONTOLOGIES; GENERAL ONTOLOGICAL LANGUAGES; ONTOLOGY REPRESENTATION LANGUAGE; ONTOLOGY REPRESENTATIONS; UML CLASS MODELS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; ONTOLOGY;

EID: 22944487647     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30202-5_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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