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Conceptual Graphs, Metamodeling, and Notation of Concepts

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Conceptual Structures: Logical, Linguistic, and Computational Issues (ICCS 2000)

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Knowledge management, in particular corporate knowledge management, is a challenge companies and researchers have to meet. The conceptual graph formalism is a good candidate for the representation of corporate knowledge, and for the development of knowledge management systems. But many of the issues concerning the use of conceptual graphs as a metalanguage have not been worked out in detail. By introducing a function that maps higher level to lower level, this paper clarifies the metalevel semantics, notation and manipulation of concepts in the conceptual graph formalism. In addition, this function allows metamodeling activities to take place using the CG notation.

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  1. HEC Montreal, 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montréal, Québec, H3T 2A7, Canada

    Olivier Gerbé

  2. Université Laval, Québec, Québec, G1K 7P4, Canada

    Guy W. Mineau

  3. Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128 Succursale Centre-Ville, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7, Canada

    Rudolf K. Keller

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  1. Institute of Algebra, University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

    Bernhard Ganter

  2. Département d’informatique et de génie logiciel, Université Laval, Pavillon Adrien-Pouliot, 1065, av. de la Médecine, G1V 0A6, Quebec City, Québec, Canada

    Guy W. Mineau

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Gerbé, O., Mineau, G.W., Keller, R.K. (2000). Conceptual Graphs, Metamodeling, and Notation of Concepts. In: Ganter, B., Mineau, G.W. (eds) Conceptual Structures: Logical, Linguistic, and Computational Issues. ICCS 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1867. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10722280_11

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