Handbook on Ontologies

By Steffen Staab

Subjects: Expert systems (computer science), Ontologies (information retrieval), Economics, Database design, Knowledge representation (information theory), Management information systems

Description: 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.