Merging ontologies requires interlocking institutional worlds

Applied Ontology

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-12

  Colomb, Robert M ^a   Ahmad, Mohammad Nazir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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