Formal versus material ontologies for information systems interoperation in the semantic web

Computer Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 4-19

  Colomb, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTEROPERABILITY; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS INTEROPERATION; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTIC WEB;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 30444439752     PISSN: 00104620     EISSN: 14602067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/comjnl/bxh147     Document Type: Article

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