Ontology
71General Formal Ontology — The General Formal Ontology (GFO) is an upper ontology integrating processes and objects. [ Herre, H.; Heller, B.; Burek, P.; Hoehndorf, R.; Loebe, F. Michalek, H.. General Formal Ontology (GFO): A Foundational Ontology Integrating Objects and… …
72Soft ontology — The term soft ontology , coined by Eli Hirsch in 1993, refers to the embracing or reconciling of apparent ontological differences, by means of relevant distinctions and contextual analyses. Hirsch used the term to broaden and expand on what… …
73MOD Ontology — The MOD Ontology is the name given to the upper ontology intended to support the UK Ministry of Defence s Enterprise Architecture Programme, specifically MODAF. The ontology project is at an early stage and is being led by DG Info (ICAD). The… …
74Online Presence Ontology — The OPO (Online Presence Ontology) is an ontology which aims to model the dynamic aspects of a user’s presence online and to enable exchange of the Online Presence data. The creator of the OPO is Milan Stankovic, a young researcher and a member… …
75Frege–Church ontology — The Frege–Church ontology is an ontology, a theory of existence. Everything is considered as being in three categories, object (referent, denotation), name, or concept (sense). The ontology was developed by Alonzo Church[1] based on ideas of… …
76Suggested Upper Merged Ontology — The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology or SUMO is an upper ontology intended as a foundation ontology for a variety of computer information processing systems. It was originally developed by the Teknowledge Corporation and now is maintained by… …
77Weak ontology — The term weak ontology has unrelated meanings in computer science and political theory. Computer science A weak ontology in computer science is one that is not sufficiently rigorous to allow software to infer new facts without an intervention by… …
78Meta-ontology — Metaontology is the branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature of ontology and ontological questions. The term owes its popularization to Peter van Inwagen s 1998 paper of the same name. However, the subject itself is much older, going back …
79Fundamental ontology — The project of fundamental ontology appeared as a result of Heidegger s decision to re interpret phenomenology, which he had developed earlier in collaboration with his mentor Husserl, using a neat set of ontological categories. For this project… …
80Object-oriented design ontology — An object oriented design ontology [1] is a hierarchical structure of design constructs. Possible constructs that may be included within an object oriented design ontology are: Design patterns [2]; Design principles; Design heuristics [3], [4].… …
