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THE SEMANTIC WEB AND THE ONTOLOGY FOR QUANTUM MECHANICS

Marcin Skulimowski

Published Jan 1, 2008• 1 citation
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Abstract

Motivations for development of an ontology for quantum mechanics and probable advantages of its using are presented in short.

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