## Abstract In philosophy, Ontology is the basic description of things in the world. In information science, an ontology refers to an engineering artifact, constituted by a specific vocabulary used to describe a certain reality. Ontologies have been proposed for validating both conceptual models an
Editorial: The role of formal ontology in the information technology
โ Scribed by N. Guarino; R. Poli
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 86 KB
- Volume
- 43
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1071-5819
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