| Abstract [eng] |
In recent years ontologies have become common on the World Wide Web. They are increasingly used in many domains such as business process integration, artificial intelligence, the semantic web, software engineering, information integration, search, biomedical informatics, navigation and information architecture as a form of knowledge representation about the world or some part of it and are also used for knowledge sharing. Ontologies are used by people, databases, and applications that need to share specific domain information (it can be medicine, real estate, automobile repair, financial management, tool manufacturing etc.). They describe: * Instances (a.k.a. individuals): the basic or \"ground level\" components; * Classes (a.k.a. concepts): abstracht groups, collections or types of objects; * Attributes: properties, features, characteristics, or parameters that objects can have and share; * Relations: ways that objects can be related to one another. The main reasons why ontologies are developed are that people want o share common understanding of the structure of information among them or software agents, they want to enable reuse of domain knowledge, analyze domain knowledge, and, of course, to separate domain knowledge from the operational knowledge. Ontologies make our lifes easier and helps to understand specific domain information among us. |
