Handbook on Ontologies

Description

An ontology is a formal description of concepts and relationships that can exist for a community of human and/or machine agents. The notion of ontologies is crucial for the purpose of enabling knowledge sharing and reuse. The Handbook on Ontologies provides a comprehensive overview of the current status and future prospectives of the field of ontologies considering ontology languages, ontology engineering methods, example ontologies, infrastructures and technologies for ontologies, and how to bring this all into ontology-based infrastructures and applications that are among the best of their kind. The field of ontologies has tremendously developed and grown in the five years since the first edition of the "Handbook on Ontologies". Therefore, its revision includes 21 completely new chapters as well as a major re-working of 15 chapters transferred to this second edition. Front Matter....Pages i-xix Front Matter....Pages 20-20 What Is an Ontology?....Pages 1-17 Description Logics....Pages 21-43 Ontologies in F-Logic....Pages 45-70 Resource Description Framework....Pages 71-90 Web Ontology Language: OWL....Pages 91-110 Ontologies and Rules....Pages 111-132 Front Matter....Pages 134-134 Ontology Engineering Methodology....Pages 135-152 Ontology Engineering and Evolution in a Distributed World Using DILIGENT....Pages 153-176 Formal Concept Analysis....Pages 177-199 An Overview of OntoClean....Pages 201-220 Ontology Design Patterns....Pages 221-243 Ontology Learning....Pages 245-267 Ontology and the Lexicon....Pages 269-292 Ontology Evaluation....Pages 293-313 Ontology Engineering Environments....Pages 315-336 Exploring the economical aspects of ontology engineering....Pages 337-358 Front Matter....Pages 360-360 Foundational Choices in DOLCE....Pages 361-381 An Ontology for Software....Pages 383-402 COMM: A Core Ontology for MultimediaAnnotation....Pages 403-421 Using the PSL Ontology....Pages 423-443 Front Matter....Pages 360-360 Ontologies for Formal Representation of Biological Systems....Pages 445-461 Ontologies for Cultural Heritage....Pages 463-486 Front Matter....Pages 488-488 RDF Storage and Retrieval Systems....Pages 489-508 Tableau-Based Reasoning....Pages 509-528 Resolution-Based Reasoning for Ontologies....Pages 529-550 Ontology Repositories....Pages 551-571 Ontology Mapping....Pages 573-590 Front Matter....Pages 592-592 Ontologies and Software Engineering....Pages 593-615 Semantic Web Services....Pages 617-636 Ontologies for Machine Learning....Pages 637-661 Information Extraction....Pages 663-685 Browsing and Navigation in Semantically Rich Spaces....Pages 687-709 Front Matter....Pages 712-712 Ontologies for Knowledge Management....Pages 713-734 Application of Ontologies in Bioinformatics....Pages 735-756 Semantic Portals for Cultural Heritage....Pages 757-778 Ontology-Based Recommender Systems....Pages 779-796 Back Matter....Pages 797-811