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Fuzzy Knowledge Management for the Semantic Web pp 99–156Cite as

Fuzzy Description Logic and Ontology Extraction from Fuzzy Data Models

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Ma, Z., Zhang, F., Yan, L., Cheng, J. (2014). Fuzzy Description Logic and Ontology Extraction from Fuzzy Data Models. In: Fuzzy Knowledge Management for the Semantic Web. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 306. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39283-2_5

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