Applied ontology : an introduction / Katherine Munn, Barry Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Munn, Katherine.

Contributor:

Smith, Barry.

Series:

Metaphysical Research ; volume 9.

Metaphysical Research ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ontology.

Bioinformatics.

Ontologies (Information retrieval).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 pages) : digital. PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Ontology is the philosophical discipline which aims to understand how things in the world are divided into categories and how these categories are related together. This is exactly what information scientists aim for in creating structured, automated representations, called 'ontologies,' for managing information in fields such as science, government, industry, and healthcare. Currently, these systems are designed in a variety of different ways, so they cannot share data with one another. They are often idiosyncratically structured, accessible only to those who created them, and unable to serve

Contents:

Front matter

Table of Contents

Introduction: What is Ontology for? / Munn, Katherine

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Philosophy and Biomedical Information Systems / Smith, Barry / Klagges, Bert

Chapter 2: What is Formal Ontology? / Hennig, Boris

Chapter 3: A Primer on Knowledge Representation and Ontological Engineering / Grenon, Pierre

Chapter 4: New Desiderata for Biomedical Terminologies / Smith, Barry

Chapter 5: The Benefits of Realism: A Realist Logic with Applications / Smith, Barry

Chapter 6: A Theory of Granular Partitions / Bittner, Thomas / Smith, Barry

Chapter 7: Classifications / Jansen, Ludger

Chapter 8: Categories: The Top-Level Ontology / Jansen, Ludger

Chapter 9: The Classification of Living Beings / Heuer, Peter / Hennig, Boris

Chapter 10: Ontological Relations / Schwarz, Ulf / Smith, Barry

Chapter 11: Four Kinds of Is_a Relation / Johansson, Ingvar

Chapter 12: Occurrents / Hennig, Boris

Chapter 13: Bioinformatics and Biological Reality / Johansson, Ingvar

References

Index

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110324860

3110324865

OCLC:

1029830536