Unintended consequences of class-based ontological commitment

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6999 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 220-229

  Lukyanenko, Roman ^a   Parsons, Jeffrey ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Classification; Domain ontologies; Instance based modeling; Ontological commitment

Indexed keywords

CLASS-BASED; DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES; DOMAIN SEMANTICS; DOMAIN-SPECIFIC ONTOLOGIES; INFORMATION SHARING; ONTOLOGICAL COMMITMENT; ONTOLOGICAL FOUNDATION; QUALITY INFORMATION; QUALITY OF DATA; SHARED ONTOLOGIES; SHARED UNDERSTANDING; UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA MINING; SEMANTICS;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 81055124416     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-24574-9_28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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