A survey of formalisms for representing and reasoning with scientific knowledge

Knowledge Engineering Review

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 199-222

  Hunter, Anthony ^a   Liu, Weiru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED TECHNIQUES; BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING; RAPID GROWTH; SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE;

AUTOMATA THEORY;

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION;

EID: 77958545535     PISSN: 02698889     EISSN: 14698005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0269888910000019     Document Type: Review

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