Ontological approach to modeling information systems

Proceedings - The Fourth International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2004)

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1122-1127

  Abugessaisa, Imad Eidin Ali ^a   Sivertun, Åke ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE;

FORMAL TOOLS; MODELING INFORMATION; ONTOLOGY; ONTOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT (ODE); DATA MODELING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 9744244310     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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