Supporting conceptual model analysis using semantic standardization and structural pattern matching

Semantic Technologies for Business and Information Systems Engineering: Concepts and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 125-149

  Delfmann, Patrick ^a   Herwig, Sebastian ^a   Lis, Łukasz ^a   Becker, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-126-3.ch007     Document Type: Chapter

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