Practical context transformation for information system interoperability

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

Volumn 2116, Issue , 2001, Pages 367-380

  Wache, Holger ^a   Stuckenschmidt, Heiner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; TERMINOLOGY;

CONTEXTUAL REASONING; FORMAL ONTOLOGY; HETEROGENEOUS INFORMATION; SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY; SOUND AND COMPLETE; SYSTEM INTEROPERABILITY; THEORY OF CONTEXTS; TRANSFORMATION RULES;

INTEROPERABILITY;

EID: 84942852132     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44607-9_28     Document Type: Article

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