Applied ontology : : an introduction / / Katherine Munn, Barry Smith.
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,' f...
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Metaphysical Research ;
volume 9. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (342 pages) :; digital. PDF file(s). |
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Table of Contents:
- Front matter
- Table of Contents
- Introduction: What is Ontology for? / Munn, Katherine
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Philosophy and Biomedical Information Systems / Smith, Barry / Klagges, Bert
- Chapter 2: What is Formal Ontology? / Hennig, Boris
- Chapter 3: A Primer on Knowledge Representation and Ontological Engineering / Grenon, Pierre
- Chapter 4: New Desiderata for Biomedical Terminologies / Smith, Barry
- Chapter 5: The Benefits of Realism: A Realist Logic with Applications / Smith, Barry
- Chapter 6: A Theory of Granular Partitions / Bittner, Thomas / Smith, Barry
- Chapter 7: Classifications / Jansen, Ludger
- Chapter 8: Categories: The Top-Level Ontology / Jansen, Ludger
- Chapter 9: The Classification of Living Beings / Heuer, Peter / Hennig, Boris
- Chapter 10: Ontological Relations / Schwarz, Ulf / Smith, Barry
- Chapter 11: Four Kinds of Is_a Relation / Johansson, Ingvar
- Chapter 12: Occurrents / Hennig, Boris
- Chapter 13: Bioinformatics and Biological Reality / Johansson, Ingvar
- References
- Index