Realism for scientific ontologies

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Volumn 209, Issue , 2010, Pages 387-399

  Dumontier, Michel ^a   Hoehndorf, Robert ^b,c  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomedical ontology; Philosophy of science; Realism

Indexed keywords

FORMAL METHODS;

BASIC FORMAL ONTOLOGIES; BIOMEDICAL DOMAIN; BIOMEDICAL ONTOLOGIES; ONTOLOGY'S; PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE; REALISM; UNOBSERVABLE;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 77950997046     PISSN: 09226389     EISSN: 18798314     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-535-8-387     Document Type: Conference Paper

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