Some applications of a unified foundational ontology in business modeling

Business Systems Analysis with Ontologies

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 345-367

  Guizzardi, Giancarlo ^a   Wagner, Gerd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

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EID: 45449092698     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-339-5.ch013     Document Type: Chapter

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