Title: Applied ontology :
Authors: Munn, Katherine.; Smith, Barry; Smith, Barry,
Date: 2008
Publisher: Ontos Verlag ;
Physical description: 342 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: B
Contents: What is ontology for? / Katherine Munn -- Bioinformatics and philosophy / Barry Smith and Bert Klagges -- What is formal ontology / Boris Hennig -- A primer on knowledge management and ontological engineering / Pierre Grenon -- New desiderata for biomedical terminologies / Barry Smith -- The benefits of realism: A Realist Logic with Applications / Barry Smith -- A theory of granular partitions / Thomas Bittner and Barry Smith -- Classifications / Ludger Jansen -- Categories: The Top-Level Ontology / Ludger Jansen -- The classification of living beings / Peter Heuer and Boris Hennig -- Ontological relations / Ulf Schwarz and Barry Smith -- Four kinds of "Is_A" relation / Ingvar Johansson -- Occurrents / Boris Hennig -- Bioinformatics and biological reality / Ingvar Johansson.
Subject headings (LCSH): Bioinformatics.; Ontologies (Information retrieval); Ontology.