A complexity measure for Ontology based on UML

Proceedings - 10th IEEE International Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 222-228

  Kang, Dazhou ^a   Xu, Baowen ^a,b,c   Lu, Jianjiang ^a,b   Chu, William C ^d  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Jiangsu Institute of Software Quality   (China)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Class diagrams; Complexity measure; Ontology; UML

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; GRAPH THEORY; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CLASS DIAGRAMS; COMPLEXITY MEASURE; ONTOLOGY; UML;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 5044228264     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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