Part-whole relations in object-role models

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

Volumn 4278 LNCS - II, Issue , 2006, Pages 1118-1127

  Keet, C Maria ^a  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DECISION THEORY; FORMAL LOGIC; SEMANTICS;

CONCEPTUAL MODELLERS; OBJECT ROLE MODELS (ORM); PARTHOOD RELATIONS; TAXONOMY;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 33845444480     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11915072_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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