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Corcho, O., Fernández-López, M., Gómez-Pérez, A. (2006). Ontological Engineering: Principles, Methods, Tools and Languages. In: Calero, C., Ruiz, F., Piattini, M. (eds) Ontologies for Software Engineering and Software Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-34518-3_1

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