Ontology engineering /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kendall, Elisa F. (Author), McGuinness, Deborah L. (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [San Rafael, California] : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2019]
Series:Synthesis lectures on the semantic web, theory and technology ; #18.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Foundations
  • 1.1. Background and definitions
  • 1.2. Logic and ontological commitment
  • 1.3. Ontology-based capabilities
  • 1.4. Knowledge representation languages
  • 1.5. Knowledge bases, databases, and ontology
  • 1.6. Reasoning, truth maintenance, and negation
  • 1.7. Explanations and proof
  • 2. Before you begin
  • 2.1. Domain analysis
  • 2.2. Modeling and levels of abstraction
  • 2.3. General approach to vocabulary development
  • 2.4. Business vocabulary development
  • 2.5. Evaluating ontologies
  • 2.6. Ontology design patterns
  • 2.7. Selecting a language
  • 3. Requirements and use cases
  • 3.1. Getting started
  • 3.2. Gathering references and potentially reusable ontologies
  • 3.3. A bit about terminology
  • 3.4. Summarizing the use case
  • 3.5. The "body" of the use case
  • 3.6. Creating usage scenarios
  • 3.7. Flow of events
  • 3.8. Competency questions
  • 3.9. Additional resources
  • 3.10. Integration with business and software requirements
  • 4. Terminology
  • 4.1. How terminology work fits into ontology engineering
  • 4.2. Laying the groundwork
  • 4.3. Term excerption and development
  • 4.4. Terminology analysis and curation
  • 4.5. Mapping terminology annotations to standard vocabularies
  • 5. Conceptual modeling
  • 5.1. Overview
  • 5.2. Getting started
  • 5.3. Identifying reusable ontologies
  • 5.4. Preliminary domain modeling
  • 5.5. Naming conventions for web-based ontologies
  • 5.6. Metadata for ontologies and model elements
  • 5.7. General nature of descriptions
  • 5.8. Relationships and properties
  • 5.9. Individuals and data ranges
  • 5.10. Other common constructs
  • 6. Conclusion.