Friday, August 29, 2008

Ontology

Easiest and Toughest way to define ontology is "Ontology is specialization of conceptualization".
This definition defines the whole world of ontology.

2 comments:

Kartar Jat said...

The term ontology is borrowed from philosophy, where Ontology is a systematic account of Existence. For AI systems, what "exists" is that which can be represented. When the knowledge of a domain is represented in a declarative formalism, the set of objects that can be represented is called the universe of discourse

Kartar Jat said...

The subject of ontology is the study of the categories of things that exist or may exist in some domain. The product of such a study, called ontology, is a catalog of the types of things that are assumed to exist in a domain of interest