Ontologies have been developed and investigated for some time in
artificial intelligence to facilitate knowledge sharing and reuse.
More recently, the notion of ontologies has attracted attention
from fields such as databases, intelligent information integration,
cooperative information systems, information retrieval, electronic
commerce, enterprise application integration, and knowledge
management. This broadened interest in ontologies is based on the
feature that they provide a machine-processable semantics of
information sources that can be communicated among agents as well
as between software artifacts and humans. This feature makes
ontologies the backbone technology of the next web generation,
i.e., the Semantic Web. Ontologies are currently applied in areas
such as knowledge management in large company-wide networks and
call centers, and in B2C, B2G, and B2B electronic commerce. In a
nutshell, ontologies enable effective and efficient access to
heterogeneous and distributed information sources. Given the
increasing amount of information available online, this kind of
support is becoming more important day by day.
The author systematically introduces the notion of ontologies to
the non-expert reader and demonstrates in detail how to apply this
conceptual framework for improved intranet retrieval of corporate
information and knowledge and for enhanced Internet-based
electronic commerce. He also describes ontology languages (XML,
RDF, and OWL) and ontology tools, and the application of
ontologies.
In addition to structural improvements, the second edition
covers recent developments relating to the Semantic Web, and
emerging web-based standard languages.
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