Understanding business domain models:The effect of recognizing resource-event-Agent conceptual modeling structures

Journal of Database Management

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 69-101

  Poels, Geert ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Business domain model; Conceptual modeling; Enterprise ontology; Model understanding; Modeling patterns; Pattern learning; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS DOMAIN; CONCEPTUAL MODELING; ENTERPRISE ONTOLOGY; MODELING PATTERNS; PATTERN LEARNING;

DATA MINING; EXPERIMENTS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION; QUERY LANGUAGES;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 79954581562     PISSN: 10638016     EISSN: 15338010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jdm.2011010104     Document Type: Article

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