Applied Ontology: An Introduction

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2008

Applied Ontology

An Introduction

Edited by: Katherine Munn and Barry Smith

Volume 9 in the series Metaphysical Research

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110324860

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About this book

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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction: What is Ontology for? Katherine Munn Publicly Available Download PDF	7
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	20
Chapter 1: Philosophy and Biomedical Information Systems Barry Smith and Bert Klagges Publicly Available Download PDF	21
Chapter 2: What is Formal Ontology? Boris Hennig Publicly Available Download PDF	39
Chapter 3: A Primer on Knowledge Representation and Ontological Engineering Pierre Grenon Publicly Available Download PDF	57
Chapter 4: New Desiderata for Biomedical Terminologies Barry Smith Publicly Available Download PDF	83
Chapter 5: The Benefits of Realism: A Realist Logic with Applications Barry Smith Publicly Available Download PDF	109
Chapter 6: A Theory of Granular Partitions Thomas Bittner and Barry Smith Publicly Available Download PDF	125
Chapter 7: Classifications Ludger Jansen Publicly Available Download PDF	159
Chapter 8: Categories: The Top-Level Ontology Ludger Jansen Publicly Available Download PDF	173
Chapter 9: The Classification of Living Beings Peter Heuer and Boris Hennig Publicly Available Download PDF	197
Chapter 10: Ontological Relations Ulf Schwarz and Barry Smith Publicly Available Download PDF	219
Chapter 11: Four Kinds of Is_a Relation Ingvar Johansson Publicly Available Download PDF	235
Chapter 12: Occurrents Boris Hennig Publicly Available Download PDF	255
Chapter 13: Bioinformatics and Biological Reality Ingvar Johansson Publicly Available Download PDF	285
References Publicly Available Download PDF	311
Index Publicly Available Download PDF	329

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Pages
- Main content: 342
Illustrations
- Other: Zahlr. Abb.
Keywords: Informatik; Informationstheorie; Ontologie; Philosophie; angewandte Ontologie

eBook

Published: May 2, 2013
ISBN: 9783110324860

Hardcover

Published: June 15, 2008
ISBN: 9783110324501