Handbook on ontologies

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.

Franz Baader and Ian Horrocks and Ulrike SattlerJurgen Angele and Georg LausenBrian McBrideGrigoris Antoniou and Frank van HarmelenPrasenjit Mitra and Gio WiederholdYork Sure and Steffen Staab and Rudi StuderUdo Hahn and Stefan SchulzNicola Guarino and Christopher A. WeltyAlexander Maedche and Steffen StaabPeter Clark and John Thompson and Bruce PorterGraeme HirstAdil Hameed and Alun Preece and Derek SleemanAsuncion Gomez-PerezRiichiro MizoguchiDaniel Oberle and Raphael Volz and Steffen Staab and Boris MotikMonica Crubezy and Mark A. MusenKatia Sycara and Massimo PaolucciNatalya F. NoyAnHai Doan and Jayant Madhavan and Pedro Domingos and Alon HalevyPeter Eklund and Richard Cole and Nataliya RobertsChristiaan Fluit and Marta Sabou and Frank van HarmelenAndreas Abecker and Ludger van ElstPeter Mika and Victor Iosif and York Sure and Hans AkkermansStuart E. Middleton and David De Roure and Nigel R. ShadboltDaniel Oberle and Peter SpynsLeslie Carr and Simon Kampa and Wendy Hall and Sean Bechhofer and Carole GobleJohn Domingue and Martin Dzbor and Enrico MottaJan Brase and Wolfgang NejdlMichael GruningerYing Ding and Dieter Fensel and Michel Klein and Borys Omelayenko and Ellen SchultenMichele Missikoff and Francesco TaglinoRobert Stevens and Chris Wroe and Phillip Lord and Carole Goble

Part I Ontology Representation and Reasoning
1 Description Logics	p. 3
2 Ontologies in F-logic	p. 29
3 The Resource Description Framework (RDF) and its Vocabulary Description Language RDFS	p. 51
4 Web Ontology Language: OWL	p. 67
5 An Ontology-Composition Algebra	p. 93
Part II Ontology Engineering
6 On-To-Knowledge Methodology (OTKM)	p. 117
7 Building a Very Large Ontology from Medical Thesauri	p. 133
8 An Overview of OntoClean	p. 151
9 Ontology Learning	p. 173
10 Knowledge Patterns	p. 191
11 Ontology and the Lexicon	p. 209
12 Ontology Reconciliation	p. 231
13 Ontology Evaluation	p. 251
14 Ontology Engineering Environments	p. 275
Part III Ontology Infrastructure
15 An Extensible Ontology Software Environment	p. 299
16 Ontologies in Support of Problem Solving	p. 321
17 Ontologies in Agent Architectures	p. 343
18 Tools for Mapping and Merging Ontologies	p. 365
19 Ontology Matching: A Machine Learning Approach	p. 385
20 Retrieving and Exploring Ontology-based Information	p. 405
21 Supporting User Tasks through Visualisation of Light-weight Ontologies	p. 415
Part IV Ontology Applications
22 Ontologies for Knowledge Management	p. 435
23 Ontology-based Content Management in a Virtual Organization	p. 455
24 Ontology-based Recommender Systems	p. 477
25 The Knowledge Portal "OntoWeb"	p. 499
26 Ontologies and Hypertext	p. 517
27 Semantic Layering with Magpie	p. 533
28 Ontologies and Metadata for eLearning	p. 555
29 Ontology of the Process Specification Language	p. 575
30 The Role of Ontologies in eCommerce	p. 593
31 An Ontology-based Platform for Semantic Interoperability	p. 617
32 Ontologies in Bioinformatics	p. 635
Author Index	p. 659

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