Using a common-sense realistic ontology: Making data models better map the world

Business Systems Analysis with Ontologies

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 218-248

  Kazmierczak, Ed ^a   Milton, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-339-5.ch008     Document Type: Chapter

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