Data modelling versus ontology engineering

SIGMOD Record

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 12-17

  Spyns, Peter ^a   Meersman, Robert ^a   Jarrar, Mustafa ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Data modelling; Ontology and knowledge engineering

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); INFORMATION THEORY; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DATA MODELING; DOMAIN RULES; DOUBLE ARTICULATION; ONTOLOGY;

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING;

EID: 2542636322     PISSN: 01635808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/637411.637413     Document Type: Conference Paper

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