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.

List of contents

Ontology Representation and Reasoning.
- Ontology Engineering.
- Ontology Infrastructure.
- Ontology Applications.

About the author

PD Dr. Steffen Staab is a senior lecturer in applied computer science at the University of Karlsruhe. He has earned a M.S.E. from University of Pennsylvania, a Dr. rer. nat. from University of Freiburg and his habilitation from University of Karlsruhe. He has done research in the fields of computational linguistics, text mining, ontology engineering, knowledge management, and peer-to-peer.

Product details

• Assisted by: Steffen Staab (Editor), R. Studer (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2004
• EAN: 9783540408345
• ISBN: 978-3-540-40834-5
• No. of pages: 586
• Weight: 1125 g
• Illustrations: w. 192 figs.
• Series: International Handbooks on Information Systems; International Handbooks on Information Systems
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries