| Description |
1 online resource (342 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Metaphysical research ; Bd. 9 |
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Metaphysical research ; Bd. 9.
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| Contents |
Introduction: What is ontology for? / Katherine Munn -- Bioinformatics and philosophy / Barry Smith and Bert Klagges -- What is formal ontology / Boris Hennig -- A primer on knowledge management and ontological engineering / Pierre Grenon -- New desiderata for biomedical terminologies / Barry Smith -- The benefits of realism: A Realist Logic with Applications / Barry Smith -- A theory of granular partitions / Thomas Bittner and Barry Smith -- Classifications / Ludger Jansen -- Categories: The Top-Level Ontology / Ludger Jansen -- The classification of living beings / Peter Heuer and Boris Hennig -- Ontological relations / Ulf Schwarz and Barry Smith -- Four kinds of "Is_A" relation / Ingvar Johansson -- Occurrents / Boris Hennig -- Bioinformatics and biological reality / Ingvar Johansson |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 25, 2013) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-327) and index |
| Subject |
Ontology.
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Bioinformatics.
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Ontologies (Information retrieval)
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Computational Biology
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ontology (metaphysics)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
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Bioinformatics
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Ontologies (Information retrieval)
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Ontology
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Ontologie Wissensverarbeitung
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Ontologie
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Ontologie (filosofie)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Munn, Katherine, editor
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Smith, Barry, 1952- editor.
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| ISBN |
9783110324860 |
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3110324865 |
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3938793988 |
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9783938793985 |
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9783110324501 |
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3110324504 |
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