Theory and Applications of Ontology: Computer Applications

Ontology was once understood to be the philosophical inquiry into the structure of reality: the analysis and categorization of <U+0018>what there is<U+0019>. Recently, however, a field called <U+0018>ontology<U+0019> has become part of the rapidly growing research industry in...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Poli, Roberto. (Editor), Healy, Michael. (Editor), Kameas, Achilles. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8847-5
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • 1. The interplay between ontology as categorial analysis and ontology as technology; Roberto Poli, Leo Obrst
  • 2. Ontological architectures; Leo Obrst
  • 3. Organization and management of large categorical systems; Frank Loebe
  • 4. The information flow approach to ontology-based semantic alignment; Yannis Kalfoglou, Marco Schorlemmer
  • 5. Ontological evaluation and validation; Samir Tartir, I. Budak Arpinar, & Amit P. Sheth
  • 6. Tools for ontology engineering and management; Lambrini Seremeti, Achilles Kameas
  • 7. Ontological tools: requirements, design issues and perspectives; Konstantinos Kotis, George Vouros
  • 8. Using the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) as a foundation for general conceptual modeling languages; Giancarlo Guizzardi, Gerd Wagner
  • 9. Lightweight semantic web ontologies; John Davies
  • 10. Wordnet; Christiane Fellbaum
  • 11. Controlled English to logic translation; Adam Pease, John Li
  • 12. Cyc; Douglas Foxvog
  • 13. Foundational Choices in DOLCE; Stefano Borgo, Claudio Masolo
  • 14. General Formal Ontology; Heinrich Herre
  • 15. Ontologies in biology; Janet Kelso, Robert Hoehndorf & Kay Pr<U+00fc>fer
  • 16. The Ontology of medical terminological systems. Towards the next generation of medical ontologies; Heinrich Herre
  • 17. Ontologies of language and language processing; John A. Bateman
  • 18. Business ontologies; Peter Rittgen
  • 19. Ontologies for e-government; Daniela Feldkamp, Knut Hinkelmann, & Barbara Thoenssen
  • 20. An ontology-based context management framework for context aware ubiquitous computing applications; Christos Goumopolous & Achilles Kameas
  • 21. Category theory as a mathematics for formalizing ontologies; Michael Healy
  • 22. Issues of logic, algebra and topology in ontology; Steven Vickers
  • 23. The Institutional approach; Robert E. Kent
  • 24. Ontology engineering, universal algebra and category theory; Michael Johnson, Robert Rosebrugh.