Towards ontological foundations for agent modelling concepts using the Unified Fundational Ontology (UFO)

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3508 LNAI, Issue , 2005, Pages 110-124

  Guizzardi, Giancarlo ^a   Wagner, Gerd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL SCIENCES;

AGENT-ORIENTED MODELING; CONCEPTUAL MODELING; UNIFIED FUNDATIONAL ONTOLOGY (UFO);

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 26444587014     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11426714_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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