Applied ontology : an introduction

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    • Munn, Katherine
    • Smith, Barry

書誌事項

Applied ontology : an introduction

Katherine Munn, Barry Smith [eds.]

（Metaphysical research, Bd. 9）

Ontos, 2008

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]- 327) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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. Katherine Munn is a former researcher for the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science and is currently reading for a PhD in philosophy at Oxford University. Barry Smith is a prominent contributor to both theoretical and applied research in ontology. He is the author of some 450 scientific publications on ontology and related topics. Currently, the primary focus of his research is the application of ontology in biomedicine and biomedical informatics.

目次

  • Introduction: What is Ontology for?
  • Bioinformatics and Philosophy
  • What Is Formal Ontology?
  • A Primer on Knowledge Management and Ontological Engineering
  • New Desiderata for Biomedical Terminologies
  • The Benefits of Realism: A Realist Logic with Applications
  • A Theory of Granular Partitions
  • Classifications
  • Categories: The Top-Level Ontology
  • The Classification of Living Beings
  • Ontological Relations
  • Four Kinds of 'Is_A' Relation
  • Occurrents
  • Bioinformatics and Biological Reality
  • Index.

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