Ontology change: Classification and survey

Knowledge Engineering Review

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 117-152

  Flouris, Giorgos ^a,b   Manakanatas, Dimitris ^b   Kondylakis, Haridimos ^b,c   Plexousakis, Dimitris ^b,c   Antoniou, Grigoris ^b,c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTIC WEB; SURVEYS;

HETEROGENEITY RESOLUTION;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 44349107543     PISSN: 02698889     EISSN: 14698005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0269888908001367     Document Type: Article

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