| Paper # | 6 | Formal Ontology and Information Systems |
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| authors | Nicola Guarino |
| affiliation | National Research Council, LADSEB, Padova, Italy |
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| Published in | FOIS'98 |
| date | 06-Jun-98 |
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| Annoation |
| Although a bit formal (in the CS sense) in its presentation this is a |
| good introductory paper in ontology. It provides overview and |
| definition of ontology and conceptualization, and the use of |
| ontology in information systems. By using information system in |
| the broadest sense, the paper provides insight as to how any |
| computer system can benefit from the use of ontology. The paper |
| discusses the use of ontology in information system from a |
| temporal perspective (development time and runtime) and |
| structural perspective (database, UI, and code). |
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