Evolving open and independent ontologies

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 235-249

  Castano, Silvana ^a   Ferrara, Alfio ^a   Montanelli, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Knowledge discovery; Ontology evolution; Ontology matching; Open networked systems

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; SEMANTICS;

CONCEPT ALIGNMENTS; EXTERNAL KNOWLEDGE; FORMAL DEFINITION; INTEGRATION LEVELS; NETWORKED SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY EVOLUTION; ONTOLOGY MATCHING; SEMANTIC MATCHMAKING;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 41149181165     PISSN: 17442621     EISSN: 1744263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMSO.2006.012949     Document Type: Article

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