A software engineering approach to ontology building

Information Systems

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 258-275

  De Nicola, Antonio ^a   Missikoff, Michele ^a   Navigli, Roberto ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Knowledge representation formalism; Knowledge representation method; Ontology building

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; INFORMATION THEORY; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STANDARDIZATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; DO-MAINS; DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES; E BUSINESSES; HIGH QUALITIES; INTEGRATED PROJECTS; ONTOLOGY BUILDING; ONTOLOGY BUILDINGS; SOFTWARE ARTEFACTS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES; UNIFIED PROCESSES;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 56949107331     PISSN: 03064379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.is.2008.07.002     Document Type: Article

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