Applied ontology
Subtitle: an introduction
By: [edited by] Katherine Munn, Barry Smith
Series: Metaphysical research -- Bd. 9; Metaphysical research -- Bd. 9.
Publisher: Ontos Verlag; [Distributed in] North and South America by Transaction Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Frankfurt; Piscataway, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9783110324860; 9783938793985
Subjects: Ontologie; Ontologie (filosofie); Bioinformatics; PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics; Ontologie <Wissensverarbeitung>; Ontology; Ontologies (Information retrieval)
Notes: Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 25, 2013).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-327) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: What is ontology for?  -- Katherine Munn; title: Bioinformatics and philosophy  -- Barry Smith and Bert Klagges; title: What is formal ontology  -- Boris Hennig; title: A primer on knowledge management and ontological engineering  -- Pierre Grenon; title: New desiderata for biomedical terminologies  -- Barry Smith; title: The benefits of realism: A Realist Logic with Applications  -- Barry Smith; title: A theory of granular partitions  -- Thomas Bittner and Barry Smith; title: Classifications  -- Ludger Jansen; title: Categories: The Top-Level Ontology  -- Ludger Jansen; title: The classification of living beings  -- Peter Heuer and Boris Hennig; title: Ontological relations  -- Ulf Schwarz and Barry Smith; title: Four kinds of "Is_A" relation  -- Ingvar Johansson; title: Occurrents  -- Boris Hennig; title: Bioinformatics and biological reality -- Ingvar Johansson.