Contextualization as an abstraction mechanism for conceptual modeling

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

Volumn 1728, Issue , 1999, Pages 475-490

  Theodorakis, Manos ^a,b   Analyti, Anastasia ^a   Constantopoulos, Panos ^a,b   Spyratos, Nicolas ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

ABSTRACTION MECHANISM; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; CONTEXTUALIZATION;

ABSTRACTING;

EID: 84947924734     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-47866-3_32     Document Type: Conference Paper

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