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Applied ontology : an introduction /

Ontology is the philosophical discipline which aims to understand how things in the world are divided into categories and how these categories are related together. This is exactly what information scientists aim for in creating structured, automated representations, called 'ontologies, '...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Munn, Katherine (Éditeur intellectuel), Smith, Barry, 1952- (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Frankfurt : Piscataway, NJ : Ontos Verlag ; [Distributed in] North and South America by Transaction Books, ©2008.
Collection:Metaphysical research ; Bd. 9.
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Table des matières:
  • Introduction: 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.