Bridging metamodels and ontologies in software engineering

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 301-313

  Henderson Sellers, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Metamodel; Ontology; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTION LEVEL; DESCRIPTORS; DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES; FOUNDATIONAL ONTOLOGIES; META MODEL; META-MODELLING; MULTI-LEVEL; REAL-WORLD; RESEARCH FIELDS; SEMANTIC MAPPING; THEORETICAL APPROACH;

ABSTRACTING; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ENGINEERING; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 78650609681     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2010.10.025     Document Type: Article

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