Towards ontology-driven information systems: Redesign and formalization of the REA ontology

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

Volumn 4439 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 245-259

  Gailly, Frederik ^a   Poels, Geert ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Business ontologies; Interoperability; Ontology engineering; OWL; UML

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; INTEGRATION; INTEROPERABILITY; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

BUSINESS ONTOLOGIES; ONTOLOGY ENGINEERING; SEMANTIC INTEGRATION;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 38049060437     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-72035-5_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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