Representing natural kinds by spatial inclusion and containment

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Volumn 110, Issue , 2004, Pages 403-407

  Schulz, Stefan ^a   Hahn, Udo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

BIOMEDICAL DOMAIN; CLEAR CUTS; ENCODING PATTERNS; ONTOLOGY'S; SIMPLE++;

TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 85017333488     PISSN: 09226389     EISSN: 18798314     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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