=Paper= {{Paper |id=None |storemode=property |title=Ontological Analysis of Means-End Links |pdfUrl=https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-766/paper07.pdf |volume=Vol-766 |dblpUrl=https://dblp.org/rec/conf/istar/FranchGGL11 }} ==Ontological Analysis of Means-End Links== https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-766/paper07.pdf
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