Towards ontological foundations for UML conceptual models

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

Volumn 2519 LNCS, Issue , 2002, Pages 1100-1117

  Guizzardi, Giancarlo ^a   Herre, Heinrich ^b   Wagner, Gerd ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; MODELING LANGUAGES; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

CONCEPTUAL MODEL; GENERAL ONTOLOGICAL LANGUAGES; LOGICAL CORRECTNESS; ONTOLOGICAL FOUNDATION; UML CLASS DIAGRAMS; UML CLASS MODELS;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 84867292127     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-36124-3_70     Document Type: Conference Paper

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