A perdurant ontology for interoperating information systems based on interlocking institutional worlds

Applied Ontology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 47-77

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

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Formal ontology; Perdurant; Speech act; Uml profile

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013606766     PISSN: 15705838     EISSN: 18758533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/AO-2010-0074     Document Type: Article

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