Scale in object and process ontologies

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

Volumn 2825, Issue , 2003, Pages 13-27

  Reitsma, Femke ^a   Bittner, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Granularity; Hierarchy; Mereology; Ontology; Process; Scale

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS; ONTOLOGY; PROCESSING;

FORMAL ONTOLOGY; GRANULARITY; HIERARCHY; HIERARCHY THEORY; MEREOLOGY; PROCESS ONTOLOGIES; SCALE; SPAN ONTOLOGIES;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 35248899939     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-39923-0_2     Document Type: Article

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