Implied ontological representation within the levels of conceptual interoperability model

Intelligent Decision Technologies

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-19

  Tolk, Andreas ^a   Turnitsa, Charles ^a   Diallo, Saikou ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent mediated decision support; Composability; Interoperability; Model based service; Ontology

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013610722     PISSN: 18724981     EISSN: 18758843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/IDT-2008-2102     Document Type: Article

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