Ontology and the Semantic Web / Robert M. Colomb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Colomb, Robert M., 1942-

Series:

Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications ; v. 156.

Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications, 0922-6389 ; v. 156

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantic Web.

Ontology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Washington, DC : IOS Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Covers developments from philosophy, artificial intelligence and information systems to formulate a collection of functional requirements for ontology development. This book looks at several ontology representation languages to show how they support the functional requirements, what deficiencies there are, and how they relate to each other.

Contents:

Title page; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Introduction: The Dream of Interoperability; Institutional Facts: Making Sense of What Is Going On; Semantic Heterogeneity; Some Examples; Complex Objects; Subclasses and Subproperties; Formal Upper Ontologies; Quality; Uses of Ontology; Representations of Ontologies: RDFS; Web Ontology Language OWL; Advanced Issues; Predicates; Topic Maps; Using an Ontology: The Ontology Server; Bibliography; Appendix A - SIC; Appendix B - Airline Ontology in RDF; Appendix C - Explanation of Some Technical Concepts; Appendix D - Conceptual Modeling Languages

Appendix E - Logical Integrity ConstraintsSolutions to Exercises; Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

6610934819

1-280-93481-6

9786610934812

1-4294-9221-X

1-60750-234-8

600-00-0508-3

1-4337-0871-X

OCLC:

437186380