Handbook on Ontologies
By: edited by Steffen Staab, Rudi Studer
Contributors: Studer, Rudi
Series: International Handbooks on Information Systems; International handbooks on information systems
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 660
ISBN-13: 9783662119570; 9783540247500
Subjects: Economics; Management information systems
Description: An ontology is a description (like a formal specification of a program) of concepts and relationships that can exist for an agent or a community of agents. The concept is important 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. The handbook demonstrates standards that have been created recently, it surveys methods that have been developed and it shows how to bring both into practice of ontology infrastructures and applications that are the best of their kind.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Table of contents: title: Ontology Representation and Reasoning; title: Ontology Engineering; title: Ontology Infrastructure; title: Ontology Applications.