Towards ontological engineering: A process for building a domain ontology from scratch in public administration

Expert Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 484-503

  Brusa, Graciela ^a   Laura Caliusco, M ^b   Chiotti, Omar ^c  

^a Bioquímica y Droguería Central del Ministerio de Salud de la Provincia de   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA NACIONAL   (Argentina)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Development process; Domain ontology; E government

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION THEORY; MANAGEMENT;

ARGENTINA; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES; DOMAIN ONTOLOGY; E-GOVERNMENT; GOVERNMENT SECTORS; ONTOLOGICAL ENGINEERINGS; PRIVATE SECTORS; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONS; PUBLIC SECTORS; SEMANTIC HETEROGENEITIES;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 54849411348     PISSN: 02664720     EISSN: 14680394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0394.2008.00471.x     Document Type: Article

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