groundwork for an ontology. Each uses ontological assumptions to frame explicit theories, research and applications. Improved ontologies may improve problem...

assess the ontological status of intentional objects. Ontological dependence is a relation between entities. An entity depends ontologically on another...

In information science, an upper ontology (also known as a top-level ontology, upper model, or foundation ontology) is an ontology (in the sense used...

Information warfare (IW) is the battlespace use and management of information and communication technology (ICT) in pursuit of a competitive advantage...

of ontological engineering. Ontology engineering is one of the areas of applied ontology, and can be seen as an application of philosophical ontology. Core...

application-specific ontologies to avoid possibly erroneous ontological assumptions encountered in modeling large-scale ontologies. By maintaining an independent...

Supporting reasoning over inferred ontologies: A knowledge graph acquires and integrates information into an ontology and applies a reasoner to derive new...

others... Ontological commitment is thus an integral aspect of ontological engineering.” [italics added] Guarino, Nicola (1998). "Formal Ontology in Information...

doctrine has an ontological commitment to non-singular individuals. In information systems and artificial intelligence, where an ontology refers to a specific...

an ontological analysis of biological ontologies. From a practical view, an ontology is a representation of something we know about. "Ontologies" consist...