Using the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) as a foundation for general conceptual modeling languages

Theory and Applications of Ontology: Computer Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 175-196

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

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8847-5_8     Document Type: Chapter

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