Mereotopology: A theory of parts and boundaries

DOI10.1016/S0169-023X(96)00015-8MaRDI QIDQ4332083zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Barry Smith

Publication date 27 February 1997

Published in Data & Knowledge Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

TopologyFormal ontologyMereologyNaive physicsCognitive science

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Theory of data (68P99)

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