Ontology, Logics, Engineering, Methodology, Infrastructures

We are happy to announced the second, completely revised edition of the: Handbook on Ontologies Springer Series on Handbooks in Information Systems http://www.springer.com/business/business+information+systems/book/978-3-540-70999-2 S. Staab, R. Studer (eds.) About 50% of the handbook content is completely novel. The rest has been revised to cover the 5 years since the first edition. Subject index included Table of Content: What is an Ontology? Nicola Guarino, Daniel Oberle, Steffen Staab pp. 1ff Part A: Ontology Representation Languages Description Logics Franz Baader, Ian Horrocks, Uli Sattler pp. 21ff Ontologies in F-Logic Jürgen Angele, Michael Kifer, Georg Lausen pp. 45ff Resource Description Framework Jeff Pan pp. 71ff Web Ontology Language: OWL Grigoris Antoniou, Frank van Harmelen pp. 91ff Ontologies and Rules Bijan Parsia, Pascal Hitzler pp. 111ff Part B: Ontology Engineering Ontology Engineering Methodology York Sure, Steffen Staab, Rudi Studer pp. 135ff Ontology Engineering and Evolution in a Distributed World using DILIGENT Sofia Pinto, Christoph Tempich, Steffen Staab pp. 153ff Formal Concept Analysis Gerd Stumme pp. 177ff An Overview of OntoClean Nicola Guarino, Chris Welty pp. 201ff Aldo Gangemi, Valentina Presutti Ontology Design Patterns pp. 221ff Ontology Learning Philipp Cimiano, Alexander Mädche, Steffen Staab, Johanna Völker pp. 245ff Ontology and the Lexicon Graeme Hirst pp. 269ff Ontology Evaluation Denny Vrandecic pp. 293ff Ontology Engineering Environments Riichiro Mizoguchi, Kouji Kozaki pp. 315 ff Exploring the economical aspects of ontology engineering Elena Simperl, Christoph Tempich pp. 337ff Part C: Ontologies Foundational choices in DOLCE Stefano Borgo, Claudio Masolo pp. 361ff An Ontology for Software Daniel Oberle, Stephan Grimm,Steffen Staab pp. 383ff COMM: A Core Ontology for Multimedia Annotation Richard Arndt, Raphael Troncy, Steffen Staab, Lynda Hardman pp. 403ff Using the PSL Ontology Michael Grüninger pp. 423ff Ontologies for formal representation of biological systems Nigam Shah, Mark Musen pp. 445ff Ontologies for Cultural Heritage Martin Doerr pp. 463ff Part D: Infrastructures for Ontologies RDF Storage and Retrieval Systems Alice Hertel, Jeen Broekstra, Heiner Stuckenschmidt pp. 489ff Tableau-based Reasoning Ralf Möller, Volker Haarslev pp. 509ff Resolution-Based Reasoning for Ontologies Boris Motik pp. 529ff Ontology Repositories Jens Hartmann, Raul Palma, Asuncion Gomez-Perez pp. 551ff Ontology Mapping Natalya F. Noy pp. 573ff Part E: Ontology-based Infrastructures Ontologies and Software Engineering Dragan Gasevic, Nima Kaviani, Milan Milanovic pp. 593ff Semantic Web Services Jos de Bruijn, Mick Kerrigan, Michal Zaremba, Dieter Fensel pp. 617ff Ontologies for Machine Learning Stephan Bloehdorn, Andreas Hotho pp. 637ff Information Extraction Claire Nedellec, Adeline Nazarenko, Robert Bossy pp. 663ff Browsing and Navigation in Semantically Rich Spaces: Experiences with Magpie Applications Martin Dzbor, Enrico Motta, Laurian Gridinoc pp. 687ff Part F: Ontology-based Applications Ontologies for Knowledge Management Andreas Abecker, Ludger van Elst pp. 713ff Application of Ontologies in Bioinformatics Robert Stevens, Phillip Lord pp. 735ff Semantic Portals for Cultural Heritage Eero Hyvönen pp. 757ff Ontology-based Recommender Systems Stuart E. Middleton, David De Roure, Nigel R. Shadbolt pp. 779ff Author Index pp. 797-798 Subject Index pp. 799-811