Handbook on Ontologies

Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Description Logics....Pages 3-28
Ontologies in F-logic....Pages 29-50
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) and its Vocabulary Description Language RDFS....Pages 51-65
Web Ontology Language: OWL....Pages 67-92
An Ontology-Composition Algebra....Pages 93-113
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
On-To-Knowledge Methodology (OTKM)....Pages 117-132
Building a Very Large Ontology from Medical Thesauri....Pages 133-150
An Overview of OntoClean....Pages 151-171
Ontology Learning....Pages 173-190
Knowledge Patterns....Pages 191-207
Ontology and the Lexicon....Pages 209-229
Ontology Reconciliation....Pages 231-250
Ontology Evaluation....Pages 251-273
Ontology Engineering Environments....Pages 275-295
Front Matter....Pages 297-297
An Extensible Ontology Software Environment....Pages 299-319
Ontologies in Support of Problem Solving....Pages 321-341
Ontologies in Agent Architectures....Pages 343-363
Tools for Mapping and Merging Ontologies....Pages 365-384
Ontology Matching: A Machine Learning Approach....Pages 385-403
Retrieving and Exploring Ontology-based Information....Pages 405-414
Front Matter....Pages 297-297
Supporting User Tasks through Visualisation of Light-weight Ontologies....Pages 415-432
Front Matter....Pages 433-433
Ontologies for Knowledge Management....Pages 435-454
Ontology-based Content Management in a Virtual Organization....Pages 455-475
Ontology-based Recommender Systems....Pages 477-498
The Knowledge Portal “OntoWeb”....Pages 499-516
Ontologies and Hypertext....Pages 517-531
Semantic Layering with Magpie....Pages 533-553
Ontologies and Metadata for eLearning....Pages 555-573
Ontology of the Process Specification Language....Pages 575-592
The Role of Ontologies in eCommerce....Pages 593-615
An Ontology-based Platform for Semantic Interoperability....Pages 617-633
Ontologies in Bioinformatics....Pages 635-657
Back Matter....Pages 659-660