Ontologies

by Fensel, Dieter; Brodie, Michael L.

• ISBN13: 9783540003021
• ISBN10: 3540003029
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Springer Nature

Summary

Ontologies have been developed and investigated for some time in artificial intelligence to facilitate knowledge sharing and reuse. More recently, the notion of ontologies has attracted attention from fields such as databases, intelligent information integration, cooperative information systems, information retrieval, electronic commerce, enterprise application integration, and knowledge management. This broadened interest in ontologies is based on the feature that they provide a machine-processable semantics of information sources that can be communicated among agents as well as between software artifacts and humans. This feature makes ontologies the backbone technology of the next web generation, i.e., the Semantic Web. Ontologies are currently applied in areas such as knowledge management in large company-wide networks and call centers, and in B2C, B2G, and B2B electronic commerce. In a nutshell, ontologies enable effective and efficient access to heterogeneous and distributed information sources. Given the increasing amount of information available online, this kind of support is becoming more important day by day. The author systematically introduces the notion of ontologies to the non-expert reader and demonstrates in detail how to apply this conceptual framework for improved intranet retrieval of corporate information and knowledge and for enhanced Internet-based electronic commerce. He also describes ontology languages (XML, RDF, and OWL) and ontology tools, and the application of ontologies. In addition to structural improvements, the second edition covers recent developments relating to the Semantic Web, and emerging web-based standard languages. ___________

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(2)
Concept	3	(8)
Languages	11	(36)
XML	11	(8)
RDF	19	(2)
Ontology Languages	21	(12)
XML, RDF, and Ontology Languages	33	(6)
New Standards	39	(8)
Tools	47	(42)
A Survey	47	(11)
Ontobroker and On2broker: Early Research Prototypes	58	(15)
The Ontoprise Tool Suite	73	(11)
On-To-Knowledge: Evolving Ontologies for Knowledge Management	84	(5)
Applications	89	(34)
Knowledge Management	90	(6)
Web Commerce	96	(11)
Electronic Business	107	(12)
Enterprise Application Integration	119	(4)
Conclusions and Outlook	123	(6)
Appendix -- Survey on Standards	129	(14)
Survey Papers	129	(1)
Ontology Standards	129	(2)
Agent Standards	131	(1)
Software Engineering Standards	132	(1)
WWW Standards	133	(2)
Text, Video, and Metadata Standards	135	(1)
Electronic Commerce Standards (Including Web Services)	136	(7)
References	143	(12)
Abbreviations	155	(4)
Index	159