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Formal Ontology in Information Systems

Author : S. Borgo
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1614999104
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (149 download)

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Download or read book Formal Ontology in Information Systems written by S. Borgo and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA). Its interdisciplinary research focus lies at the intersection of philosophical ontology, linguistics, logic, cognitive science, and computer science, as well as in the applications of ontological analysis to conceptual modeling, knowledge engineering, knowledge management, information-systems development, library and information science, scientific research, and semantic technologies in general. This volume presents the proceedings of FOIS 2018, held in Cape Town, South Africa, from 19-21 September. It was the 10th edition and 20th anniversary of the conference series. The volume contains 19 papers grouped into 4 sections: Foundations (7 papers), Agents and Properties (4 papers), Methods and Tools (4 papers), and Applications (4 papers). Regarding the applications of ontologies, a broad spectrum of areas is covered, including in particular biology and medicine, IoT, engineering and linguistics. Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference (FOIS 2018) will be of interest to researchers from all disciplines with an interest in formal ontology.

Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology

Author : Robert Arp
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026232959X
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology written by Robert Arp and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-08-28 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the field of applied ontology with examples derived particularly from biomedicine, covering theoretical components, design practices, and practical applications. In the era of “big data,” science is increasingly information driven, and the potential for computers to store, manage, and integrate massive amounts of data has given rise to such new disciplinary fields as biomedical informatics. Applied ontology offers a strategy for the organization of scientific information in computer-tractable form, drawing on concepts not only from computer and information science but also from linguistics, logic, and philosophy. This book provides an introduction to the field of applied ontology that is of particular relevance to biomedicine, covering theoretical components of ontologies, best practices for ontology design, and examples of biomedical ontologies in use. After defining an ontology as a representation of the types of entities in a given domain, the book distinguishes between different kinds of ontologies and taxonomies, and shows how applied ontology draws on more traditional ideas from metaphysics. It presents the core features of the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO), now used by over one hundred ontology projects around the world, and offers examples of domain ontologies that utilize BFO. The book also describes Web Ontology Language (OWL), a common framework for Semantic Web technologies. Throughout, the book provides concrete recommendations for the design and construction of domain ontologies.

Formal Ontology in Information Systems

Author : Antony Galton
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1607505347
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Formal Ontology in Information Systems written by Antony Galton and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ontology began life in ancient times as a fundamental part of philosophical enquiry concerned with the analysis and categorisation of what exists. In recent years, the subject has taken a practical turn with the advent of complex computerised information systems which are reliant on robust and coherent representations of their subject matter. The systematisation and elaboration of such representations and their associated reasoning techniques constitute the modern discipline of formal ontology, which is now being applied to such diverse domains as artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, bioinformatics, GIS, knowledge engineering, information retrieval and the Semantic Web. Researchers in all these areas are becoming increasingly aware of the need for serious engagement with ontology, understood as a general theory of the types of entities and relations making up their respective domains of enquiry, to provide a solid foundation for their work. The conference series Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS) provides a meeting point for researchers from these and other disciplines with an interest in formal ontology, where both theoretical issues and concrete applications can be explored in a spirit of genuine interdisciplinarity. This volume contains the proceedings of the sixth FOIS conference, held in Toronto, Canada, during 11-14 May 2010, including invited talks by Francis Jeffry Pelletier, John Bateman, and Alan Rector and the 28 peer-reviewed submissions selected for presentation at the conference, ranging from foundational issues to more application-oriented topics. IOS Press is an international science, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics, scientists, and professionals in all fields. Some of the areas we publish in: -Biomedicine -Oncology -Artificial intelligence -Databases and information systems -Maritime engineering -Nanotechnology -Geoengineering -All aspects of physics -E-governance -E-commerce -The knowledge economy -Urban studies -Arms control -Understanding and responding to terrorism -Medical informatics -Computer Sciences

Formal Ontology in Information Systems

Author : Achille C. Varzi
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 9781586034689
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Formal Ontology in Information Systems written by Achille C. Varzi and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as ontology developed over the centuries as part of philosophy, so in recent years ontology has become intertwined with the development of the information sciences. Researchers in such areas as artificial intelligence, formal and computational linguistics, biomedical informatics, conceptual modeling, knowledge engineering and information retrieval have come to realize that a solid foundation for their research calls for serious work in ontology, understood as a general theory of the types of entities and relations that make up their respective domains of inquiry. In all these areas, attention has started to focus on the content of information rather than on just the formats and languages in terms of which information is represented. A clear example of this development is provided by the many initiatives growing up around the project of the Semantic Web. And as the need for integrating research in these different fields arises, so does the realization that strong principles for building well-founded ontologies might provide significant advantages over ad hoc, case-based solutions.The tools of Formal Ontology address precisely these needs, but a real effort is required in order to apply such philosophical tools to the domain of Information Systems. Reciprocally, research in the information science raises specific ontological questions which call for further philosophical investigations.

Ontological Semantics

Author : Sergei Nirenburg
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262140867
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Ontological Semantics written by Sergei Nirenburg and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive theory-based approach to the treatment of text meaning in natural language processing applications.

Applied Ontology

Author : Katherine Munn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110324865
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Applied Ontology written by Katherine Munn and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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,’ for managing information in fields such as science, government, industry, and healthcare. Currently, these systems are designed in a variety of different ways, so they cannot share data with one another. They are often idiosyncratically structured, accessible only to those who created them, and unable to serve as inputs for automated reasoning. This volume shows, in a non-technical way and using examples from medicine and biology, how the rigorous application of theories and insights from philosophical ontology can improve the ontologies upon which information management depends.

Formal Ontology in Information Systems

Author : F. Neuhaus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781643682488
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Formal Ontology in Information Systems written by F. Neuhaus and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-19 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS) is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications, a non-profit organization promoting interdisciplinary research and international collaboration at the intersection of philosophical ontology, linguistics, logic, cognitive science, and computer science. This book presents the 11 papers accepted for the 12th edition of FOIS. The conference was held from 13-17 September 2021 in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, as a hybrid event with some participants attending on-site in Bolzano and others attending virtually online. The papers are divided into 3 sections and cover a wide range of topics: (1) Foundations, addressing fundamental issues; (2) Applications and Methods, presenting novel uses, systems, tools, and approaches; and (3) Domain Ontology, describing well-formed ontologies in particular subject areas.

Advances in Ontology Design and Patterns

Author : K. Hammar
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1614998264
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (149 download)

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Download or read book Advances in Ontology Design and Patterns written by K. Hammar and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2017-12-27 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of patterns in the context of ontology engineering for the semantic web was pioneered more than a decade ago by Blomqvist, Sandkuhl and Gangemi. Since then, this line of research has flourished and led to the development of ontology design patterns, knowledge patterns, and linked data patterns: the patterns as they are known by ontology designers, knowledge engineers, and linked data publishers, respectively. A key characteristic of those patterns is that they are modular and reusable solutions to recurrent problems in ontology engineering and linked data publishing. This book contains recent contributions which advance the state of the art on theory and use of ontology design patterns. The papers collected in this book cover a range of topics, from a method to instantiate content patterns, a proposal on how to document a content pattern, to a number of patterns emerging in ontology modeling in various situations.

Ontology-Based Multi-Agent Systems

Author : Maja Hadzic
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642019048
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Ontology-Based Multi-Agent Systems written by Maja Hadzic and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-07-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last two decades, the idea of Semantic Web has received a great deal of attention. An extensive body of knowledge has emerged to describe technologies that seek to help us create and use aspects of the Semantic Web. Ontology and agent-based technologies are understood to be the two important technologies here. A large number of articles and a number of books exist to describe the use individually of the two technologies and the design of systems that use each of these technologies individually, but little focus has been given on how one can - sign systems that carryout integrated use of the two different technologies. In this book we describe ontology and agent-based systems individually, and highlight advantages of integration of the two different and complementary te- nologies. We also present a methodology that will guide us in the design of the - tegrated ontology-based multi-agent systems and illustrate this methodology on two use cases from the health and software engineering domain. This book is organized as follows: • Chapter I, Current issues and the need for ontologies and agents, describes existing problems associated with uncontrollable information overload and explains how ontologies and agent-based systems can help address these - sues. • Chapter II, Introduction to multi-agent systems, defines agents and their main characteristics and features including mobility, communications and collaboration between different agents. It also presents different types of agents on the basis of classifications done by different authors.

Ontologies in Medicine

Author : Domenico M. Pisanelli
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 9781586034184
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Ontologies in Medicine written by Domenico M. Pisanelli and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Title Page -- Contents -- If Ontology is the Solution, What is the Problem? -- Biodynamic Ontology: Applying BFO in the Biomedical Domain -- Bodily Systems and the Spatial-Functional Structure of the Human Body -- Inflammation Ontology Design Pattern: An Exercise in Building a Core Biomedical Ontology With Descriptions and Situations -- Context-Based Task Ontologies for Clinical Guidelines -- An Ontological Framework for the Implementation of Clinical Guidelines in Health Care Organizations -- Gene Ontology Application to Genomic Functional Annotation, Statistical Analysis and Knowledge Mining -- Evolving from Standard Vocabularies to Formal Ontology for an Information System Dedicated to Organ Transplantation -- Mistakes in Medical Ontologies: Where Do They Come From and How Can They Be Detected? -- Author Index

Perspectives on Ontology Learning

Author : J. Lehmann
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1614993793
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (149 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Ontology Learning written by J. Lehmann and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspectives on Ontology Learning brings together researchers and practitioners from different communities − natural language processing, machine learning, and the semantic web − in order to give an interdisciplinary overview of recent advances in ontology learning. Starting with a comprehensive introduction to the theoretical foundations of ontology learning methods, the edited volume presents the state-of-the-start in automated knowledge acquisition and maintenance. It outlines future challenges in this area with a special focus on technologies suitable for pushing the boundaries beyond the creation of simple taxonomical structures, as well as on problems specifically related to knowledge modeling and representation using the Web Ontology Language. Perspectives on Ontology Learning is designed for researchers in the field of semantic technologies and developers of knowledge-based applications. It covers various aspects of ontology learning including ontology quality, user interaction, scalability, knowledge acquisition from heterogeneous sources, as well as the integration with ontology engineering methodologies.

Semantic Data Mining

Author : A. Ławrynowicz
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1614997462
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (149 download)

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Download or read book Semantic Data Mining written by A. Ławrynowicz and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ontologies are now increasingly used to integrate, and organize data and knowledge, particularly in data and knowledge-intensive applications in both research and industry. The book is devoted to semantic data mining – a data mining approach where domain ontologies are used as background knowledge, and where the new challenge is to mine knowledge encoded in domain ontologies and knowledge graphs, rather than only purely empirical data. The introductory chapters of the book provide theoretical foundations of both data mining and ontology representation. Taking a unified perspective, the book then covers several methods for semantic data mining, addressing tasks such as pattern mining, classification and similarity-based approaches. It attempts to provide state-of-the-art answers to specific challenges and peculiarities of data mining with use of ontologies, in particular: How to deal with incompleteness of knowledge and the so-called Open World Assumption? What is a truly “semantic” similarity measure? The book contains several chapters with examples of applications of semantic data mining. The examples start from a scenario with moderate use of lightweight ontologies for knowledge graph enrichment and end with a full-fledged scenario of an intelligent knowledge discovery assistant using complex domain ontologies for meta-mining, i.e., an ontology-based meta-learning approach to full data mining processes. The book is intended for researchers in the fields of semantic technologies, knowledge engineering, data science, and data mining, and developers of knowledge-based systems and applications.

Ontological Investigations

Author : Ingvar Johansson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110329867
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Ontological Investigations written by Ingvar Johansson and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is devoted to problems within analytic metaphysics. It defends an ontology and theory of categories inspired by Aristotle, but revised in such a way as to be compatible with modern science. The ontology of both natural and social reality is addressed, starting out from the view that universals exist but only in the spatiotemporal world (immanent realism). In attempting to bring Aristotle's ontology up-to-date, the author relies very much on the thinking of Edmund Husserl, conceiving the cement of the universe as Husserlian relations of existential dependence and regarding intentionality as a non-reducible category in the ontology of mind. The work is thoroughly realistic in spirit, but large parts of it should nonetheless be of interest to conceptualists and nominalists, too.

Ontological Engineering approach of developing Ontology of Information Science

Author : Ahlam F. Sawsaa
Publisher : Anchor Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 3954899485
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book Ontological Engineering approach of developing Ontology of Information Science written by Ahlam F. Sawsaa and published by Anchor Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ontology has been a subject of many studies carried out in artificial intelligence (AI) and information system communities. Ontology has become an important component of the semantic web, covering a variety of knowledge domains. Although building domain ontologies still remains a big challenge with regard to its designing and implementation, there are still many areas that need to create ontologies. Information Science (IS) is one of these areas that need a unified ontology model to facilitate information access among the heterogeneous data resources and share a common understanding of the domain knowledge. Recently, the development of domain ontologies has become increasingly important for knowledge level interoperation and information integration. They provide functional features for AI and knowledge representation. Domain Ontology is a central foundation of growth for the semantic web that provides a general knowledge for correspondence and communication among heterogeneous systems. Particularly with a rise of ontology in the artificial intelligence (AI) domain, it can be seen as an almost inevitable development in computer science and AI in general.

Handbook on Ontologies

Author : Steffen Staab
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540247505
Total Pages : 661 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Handbook on Ontologies written by Steffen Staab and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Reasoning Techniques for the Web of Data

Author : A. Hogan
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1614993831
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (149 download)

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Download or read book Reasoning Techniques for the Web of Data written by A. Hogan and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2014-04-09 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linked Data publishing has brought about a novel “Web of Data”: a wealth of diverse, interlinked, structured data published on the Web. These Linked Datasets are described using the Semantic Web standards and are openly available to all, produced by governments, businesses, communities and academia alike. However, the heterogeneity of such data – in terms of how resources are described and identified – poses major challenges to potential consumers. Herein, we examine use cases for pragmatic, lightweight reasoning techniques that leverage Web vocabularies (described in RDFS and OWL) to better integrate large scale, diverse, Linked Data corpora. We take a test corpus of 1.1 billion RDF statements collected from 4 million RDF Web documents and analyse the use of RDFS and OWL therein. We then detail and evaluate scalable and distributed techniques for applying rule-based materialisation to translate data between different vocabularies, and to resolve coreferent resources that talk about the same thing. We show how such techniques can be made robust in the face of noisy and often impudent Web data. We also examine a use case for incorporating a PagerRank-style algorithm to rank the trustworthiness of facts produced by reasoning, subsequently using those ranks to fix formal contradictions in the data. All of our methods are validated against our real world, large scale, open domain, Linked Data evaluation corpus.

Formal Ontology in Information Systems

Author : B. Brodaric
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 164368129X
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book Formal Ontology in Information Systems written by B. Brodaric and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications, a non-profit organization which promotes interdisciplinary research and international collaboration at the intersection of philosophical ontology, linguistics, logic, cognitive science, and computer science, as well as in the applications of ontological analysis to conceptual modeling, knowledge engineering, knowledge management, information-systems development, library and information science, scientific research, and semantic technologies in general. This volume presents the 17 papers accepted for the 11th Formal Ontology in Information Systems conference (FOIS 2020). These papers cover a broad range of topics and are organized into 5 groups. Foundations is dedicated to the general ontological decisions providing a foundation for any ontology, both from a philosophical perspective and with an emphasis on applications. Social Entities is dedicated to the ontological analysis and formalization of various social entities, including secrets, legal theories, decisions, kinship, and cultural heritage. The papers in Intentionality and Embodiment analyze aspects of an agent's intentions, beliefs and desires, as well as the embodiment of functional relations. The section on Parts and Wholes is dedicated to mereology as well as the mereological analysis of certain types of entities (e.g., pluralities, information entities, and computer programs). Lastly, the papers in Methods are about ontology evaluation and use. Altogether, the papers reflect traditional FOIS themes with perhaps a greater emphasis on social and agent aspects, and will be of interest to all those whose work involves ontology and its applications.