• DocumentCode
    1488198
  • Title

    Just What Is an Ontology, Anyway?

  • Author

    Jepsen, Thomas C.

  • Author_Institution
    IT consultant, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
  • Volume
    11
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    2009
  • Firstpage
    22
  • Lastpage
    27
  • Abstract
    This tutorial article describes some definitions of "ontology" as it relates to computer applications and gives an overview of some common ontology-based applications.
  • Keywords
    ontologies (artificial intelligence); ontology-based application; Application software; Computer science; Dairy products; Markup languages; Microstrip; OWL; Ontologies; Resource description framework; Semantic Web; Unified modeling language; IT Professional; Unified Modeling Language (UML); Web Ontology Language (OWL); class; immanent; instance; knowledge management; knowledge representation; ontology; semantic network; transcendent;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    IT Professional
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1520-9202
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MITP.2009.105
  • Filename
    5271528