IKARUS-Onto: A methodology to develop fuzzy ontologies from crisp ones

Knowledge and Information Systems

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 667-695

  Alexopoulos, Panos ^a,c   Wallace, Manolis ^b   Kafentzis, Konstantinos ^a   Askounis, Dimitris ^c  

^a IMC Technologies   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PELOPONNESE   (Greece)

^c NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fuzzy ontologies; Knowledge management; Knowledge based systems; Ontology engineering; Semantic web; Vagueness

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; REUSABILITY; SEMANTIC WEB;

APPLICATION SCENARIO; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; FUZZY ONTOLOGY; IMPRECISE KNOWLEDGE; ONTOLOGY ENGINEERING; VAGUENESS;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 84865420675     PISSN: 02191377     EISSN: 02193116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10115-011-0457-6     Document Type: Article

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