Revising and managing multiple ontology versions in a possible worlds setting

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

Volumn 3292, Issue , 2004, Pages 798-809

  De Leenheer, Pieter ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

COGNITIVE AGENTS; CRITICAL PROBLEMS; EVOLUTION PROCESS; INTEGRAL PART; ONTOLOGY EVOLUTION; ONTOLOGY REPRESENTATIONS; POSSIBLE WORLDS;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 35048858397     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30470-8_94     Document Type: Article

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