Ontology, or the nature of being, has been a focal area of study in the philosophical disciplines for a long time. Interpreted simply, the term ontology refers to the question "what kinds of things exist?" to a philosopher, while a computer scientist grapples with the question "what kinds of things should we capture and represent?" Together, research on the two questions yield a broad framework for the analysis of a discourse universe, its representation in some abstract form and the development of organizations and systems within the universe. The philosophical perspective on ontology provides a description of the essential properties and relations of all beings in the universe, while this notion has been expanded as well as specialized in the fields of computer science and artificial intelligence. The AI/CS communities now use this notion to refer to not one but multiple ontologies. In the AI/CS perspective, an ontology refers to the specification of knowledge about entities, and their relationships and interactions in a bounded universe of discourse only. As a result, a number of bounded-universe ontologies have been created over the last decade. These include the Chemicals ontology in the chemistry area, the TOVE and Enterprise ontologies for enterprise modeling, the REA ontology in the accounting area, organizational knowledge ontology in the knowledge management area, an ontology of air campaign planning in the defense area, and the GALEN ontology in the medical informatics area.
| ISBN: | 9780387370194 |
| Publication date: | 18th December 2006 |
| Author: | Raj Sharman, Rajiv Kishore, Ram Ramesh |
| Publisher: | Springer an imprint of Springer US |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 930 pages |
| Series: | Integrated Series in Information Systems |
| Genres: |
Mathematical theory of computation Management decision making Business mathematics and systems Operational research Artificial intelligence Network hardware Business applications Computer hardware |
Ontology, or the nature of being, has been a focal area of study in the philosophical disciplines for a long time. Interpreted simply, the term ontology refers to the question "what kinds of things exist?" to a philosopher, while a computer scientist grapples with the question "what kinds of things should we capture and represent?" Together, research on the two questions yield a broad framework for the analysis of a discourse universe, its representation in some abstract form and the development of organizations and systems within the universe. The philosophical perspective on ontology provides a description of the essential properties and relations of all beings in the universe, while this notion has been expanded as well as specialized in the fields of computer science and artificial intelligence. The AI/CS communities now use this notion to refer to not one but multiple ontologies. In the AI/CS perspective, an ontology refers to the specification of knowledge about entities, and their relationships and interactions in a bounded universe of discourse only. As a result, a number of bounded-universe ontologies have been created over the last decade. These include the Chemicals ontology in the chemistry area, the TOVE and Enterprise ontologies for enterprise modeling, the REA ontology in the accounting area, organizational knowledge ontology in the knowledge management area, an ontology of air campaign planning in the defense area, and the GALEN ontology in the medical informatics area.
Ontologies features in the following genres: Mathematical theory of computation, Management decision making, Business mathematics and systems, Operational research, Artificial intelligence, Network hardware, Business applications, Computer hardware
Ontologies is available in Hardback
Ontologies was written by Raj Sharman, Rajiv Kishore, Ram Ramesh and published by Springer an imprint of Springer US
Ontologies has 930 pages
Yes it is part of Integrated Series in Information Systems series