Using ontology to validate conceptual models
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- 1 October 2003
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 46 (10) , 85-89
- https://doi.org/10.1145/944217.944244
Abstract
Theories of ontology lead to improved conceptual models and help ensure they are indeed faithful representations of their focal domains.Keywords
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