COMPUTATIONAL ONTOLOGIES: FOUNDATIONS, REPRESENTATIONS, AND METHODS1

9th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 3178-3189

  Kishore, Rajiv ^a   Ramesh, R ^a   Sharman, Raj ^a  

^a School of Dental Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE;

COMPUTATIONAL ONTOLOGY; DESIGN ISSUES; FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS; FUNDAMENTAL DESIGN; ONTOLOGICAL ENGINEERING; ONTOLOGY'S;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 4243086175     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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