Theory and Applications of Ontology: Computer Applications

Theory and Applications of Ontology: Computer Applications edited by Roberto Poli, Michael Healy, Achilles Kameas.

Ontology was once understood to be the philosophical inquiry into the structure of reality: the analysis and categorization of ‘what there is’. Recently, however, a field called ‘ontology’ has become part of the rapidly growing research industry in information technology. The two fields have more in...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Poli, Roberto (Editor), Healy, Michael (Editor), Kameas, Achilles (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
Edition:1st ed. 2010.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Ontology.
Application software.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Interplay Between Ontology as Categorial Analysis and Ontology as Technology
  • Ontological Architectures
  • Organization and Management of Large Categorical Systems
  • The Information Flow Approach to Ontology-Based Semantic Alignment
  • Ontological Evaluation and Validation
  • Tools for Ontology Engineering and Management
  • Ontological Tools: Requirements, Design Issues and Perspectives
  • Using the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) as a Foundation for General Conceptual Modeling Languages
  • Lightweight Ontologies
  • WordNet
  • Controlled English to Logic Translation
  • Cyc
  • Ontological Foundations of dolce
  • General Formal Ontology (GFO): A Foundational Ontology for Conceptual Modelling
  • Ontologies in Biology
  • The Ontology of Medical Terminological Systems: Towards the Next Generation of Medical Ontologies
  • Ontologies of Language and Language Processing
  • Business Ontologies
  • Ontologies for E-government
  • An Ontology-Driven Approach and a Context Management Framework for Ubiquitous Computing Applications
  • Category Theory as a Mathematics for Formalizing Ontologies
  • Issues of Logic, Algebra and Topology in Ontology
  • The Institutional Approach
  • Ontology Engineering, Universal Algebra, and Category Theory.

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