What's in an Instance?

@misc{citeulike:216631, abstract = {The notion of an instance is ubiquitous in knowledge representations for domain modeling. Most languages used for domain modeling offer syntactic or semantic restrictions on specific language constructs that distinguish individuals and classes in the application domain. The use, however, of instances and classes to represent domain entities has been driven by concerns that range from the strictly practical (e.g. the exploitation of inheritance) to the vaguely philosophical (e.g. intuitive...}, author = {Welty, Christopher A. and Ferrucci, David A.}, citeulike-article-id = {216631}, keywords = {instance, mkis}, posted-at = {2008-08-13 03:35:55}, priority = {0}, title = {What's in an Instance?}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.32.7855} }

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