In defense of a trope-based ontology for conceptual modeling: An example with the foundations of attributes, weak entities and datatypes

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

Volumn 4215 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 112-125

  Guizzardi, Giancarlo ^a,b   Masolo, Claudio ^a   Borgo, Stefano ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

CONCEPTUAL MODELING LANGUAGES; DATATYPES; ONTOLOGICAL THEORY; ONTOLOGY;

DATA STRUCTURES;

EID: 33845216120     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11901181_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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