What's in a relationship: An ontological analysis

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5231 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 83-97

  Guizzardi, Giancarlo ^a   Wagner, Gerd ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

^b BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

CONCEPTUAL MODEL; FOUNDATIONAL ONTOLOGIES; ONTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; REAL-WORLD; SOUND MODELING;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 57049117392     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87877-3_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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