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Handbook on Ontologies

By Steffen Staab , Daniel Oberle , Rudi Studer (eds.) , Nicola Guarino , Steffen Staab (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2009
ISBN
3540709991, 9783540709992
DOI
10.1007/978-3-540-92673-3
Open Library ID
OL23712101M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7443380 bytes)
Series
International Handbooks on Information Systems
Edition
2
Pages
811\832
Topic
Economy
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Business Information Systems; Information Systems

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.

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