Applied Ontology

In recent years, the dramatic growth of information and communication technologies has led to an increasingly interdisciplinary approach to research and development activities in these fields. To exploit the immense opportunities of widespread networks effectively, designers of modern information systems need to combine the precision of formal semantics with the needs of cognitive transparency, as they incorporate increasingly sophisticated and heterogeneous information content. The recent explosion of interest on ontologies is an important component of this trend. Researchers in disciplines such as knowledge engineering, information systems modeling, artificial intelligence, formal and computational linguistics, information retrieval, library science, and knowledge management have come to realize that a solid foundation for their research calls for serious work in ontology, understood as a general theory of the types of entities and relations that make up their respective domains of inquiry. In all these areas, attention has started to focus squarely on the content of information, rather than on just the formats and languages used to represent that content.Applied Ontology focuses on information content in its broadest sense. As the subtitle makes clear, two broad kinds of content-based research activities are envisioned: ontological analysis and conceptual modeling. The former includes any attempt to investigate the nature and structure of a domain of interest using rigorous philosophical or logical tools; the latter concerns the cognitive and linguistic structures we use to model the world, as well as the various analysis tools and methodologies we adopt for producing useful computational models, such as information systems schemes or knowledge structures.Applied Ontology is the first journal with an explicit and exclusive focus on ontological analysis and conceptual modeling under an interdisciplinary view. It aims to establish a unique niche in the realm of scientific journals by carefully avoiding unnecessary duplication with discipline-oriented journals. For this reason, authors will be encouraged to use language that will be intelligible also to those outside their specific sector of expertise, and the review process will be tailored to this end. For example, authors of theoretical contributions will be encouraged to show the relevance of their theory for applications, while authors of more technological papers will be encouraged to show the relevance of a well-founded theoretical perspective. Moreover, the journal will publish papers focusing on representation languages or algorithms only where these address relevant content issues, whether at the level of practical application or of theoretical understanding. Similarly, it will publish descriptions of tools or implemented systems only where a contribution to the practice of ontological analysis and conceptual modeling is clearly established.Applied Ontology aims at being a major publication forum for theoretical and applied research in a variety of topics, tentatively grouped together in research areas, examples of which are indicated in the list below.Foundational issuesPhilosophical foundations of ontologyBasic ontological categories and relationsOntology, epistemology, and semioticsSpecialized ontologiesOntology of time, events and processesOntology of space and geographyOntology of physics and physical objectsOntology of biomedicineOntology of mental entitiesOntology of agents and actionsOntology of organizations and social realityOntology of the information societyOntology of business and e-commerceOntology of lawOntology of history, culture, and evolutionOntology development and ontology-driven conceptual modelingMethodologies for ontology developmentImpact of ontological analysis on current modeling practicesBest-practice examples and case studiesOntology managementTools for ontology development, analysis, and comparisonComparison and evaluation of ontologiesOntology management, maintenance, versioningMethodologies for ontology merging, alignment, and integrationSemantic WebOntology and languageOntology and natural-language semanticsOntology and lexical resourcesOntology and terminologyOntology learning techniques and their evaluationRole of ontology in natural-language systemsOntology, cognition, perceptionConceptual schemas, perceptual invariances, and ontological categorizationPsychological experiments evaluating the cognitive adequacy of ontological categoriesOntology and content standardsLibrary scienceKnowledge organizationMuseums and cultural repositoriesMultimedia contentProduct descriptionsProcess and service descriptionsBiomedical and other scientific terminologiesInnovative ontology-based applicationsAbstracted/Indexed inAcademic Source CompleteACM Digital LibraryCompendexDBLP Bibliography ServerGoogle ScholarMicrosoft Academic SearchScopusUlrich's Periodicals DirectoryWeb of Science: Current Contents/EngineeringWeb of Science: Journal Citation Reports/Science EditionWeb of Science: Science Citation Index-Expanded (SciSearch?)

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