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Handbook on Ontologies

, and (Eds.) International Handbooks on Information Systems Springer, Dordrecht, 2 edition, (2009)
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-92673-3

Abstract

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. The field of ontologies has tremendously developed and grown in the five years since the first edition of the Handbook. Therefore, its revision includes 21 completely new chapters as well as a major re-working of 15 chapters transferred to this second edition.

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