Modularisation of domain ontologies implemented in description logics and related formalisms including OWL

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Capture, K-CAP 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 121-128

  Rector, Alan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Description Logics; Ontologies; OWL; Semantic Web

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; DATA DESCRIPTION; FORMAL LANGUAGES; SEMANTIC WEB;

DESCRIPTION LOGIC; DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES; NORMALISATION;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 84947570401     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/945645.945664     Document Type: Conference Paper

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