Preliminaries to a DOLCE ontology of organisations

International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 225-238

  Bottazzi, E ^a   Ferrario, R ^b  

^a Philosophy Department   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Business process integration; Norms; Ontology; Organisation; Roles; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950228241     PISSN: 17418763     EISSN: 17418771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBPIM.2009.032280     Document Type: Article

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