Handbook on Ontologies, 2nd completely revised edition available

We are happy to announced the second, completely revised edition of the:

Handbook on Ontologies

Springer Series on Handbooks in Information Systems
http://www.springer.com/business/business+information+systems/book/978-3-540-70999-2
S. Staab, R. Studer (eds.)


About 50% of the handbook content is completely novel. The rest has been
revised to cover the 5 years since the first edition. Subject index included


Table of Content:

What is an Ontology?
Nicola Guarino, Daniel Oberle, Steffen Staab 	
pp. 1ff

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Part A: Ontology Representation Languages

Description Logics 	
Franz Baader, Ian Horrocks, Uli Sattler 	
pp. 21ff

Ontologies in F-Logic 	
Jürgen Angele, Michael Kifer, Georg Lausen 	
pp. 45ff

Resource Description Framework
Jeff Pan 	
pp. 71ff

Web Ontology Language: OWL 	
Grigoris Antoniou, Frank van Harmelen 	
pp. 91ff

Ontologies and Rules 	
Bijan Parsia, Pascal Hitzler
pp. 111ff

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Part B: Ontology Engineering

Ontology Engineering Methodology
York Sure, Steffen Staab, Rudi Studer 	
pp. 135ff

Ontology Engineering and Evolution in a Distributed World using DILIGENT
Sofia Pinto, Christoph Tempich, Steffen Staab 	
pp. 153ff

Formal Concept Analysis 	 	
Gerd Stumme 	
pp. 177ff

An Overview of OntoClean
Nicola Guarino, Chris Welty 	
pp. 201ff

Aldo Gangemi, Valentina Presutti 	
Ontology Design Patterns 	
pp. 221ff

Ontology Learning 	
Philipp Cimiano, Alexander Mädche, Steffen Staab, Johanna Völker 	
pp. 245ff

Ontology and the Lexicon 	
Graeme Hirst 	
pp. 269ff

Ontology Evaluation
Denny Vrandecic 	
pp. 293ff

Ontology Engineering Environments
Riichiro Mizoguchi, Kouji Kozaki 	
pp. 315	ff

Exploring the economical aspects of ontology engineering 	
Elena Simperl, Christoph Tempich 	
pp. 337ff


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Part C: Ontologies

Foundational choices in DOLCE
Stefano Borgo, Claudio Masolo 	
pp. 361ff

An Ontology for Software 	
Daniel Oberle, Stephan Grimm,Steffen Staab 	
pp. 383ff

COMM: A Core Ontology for Multimedia Annotation
Richard Arndt, Raphael Troncy, Steffen Staab, Lynda Hardman 	
pp. 403ff

Using the PSL Ontology
Michael Grüninger 	
pp. 423ff

Ontologies for formal representation of biological systems
Nigam Shah, Mark Musen 	
pp. 445ff
	
Ontologies for Cultural Heritage 	
Martin Doerr 	
pp. 463ff

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Part D: Infrastructures for Ontologies

RDF Storage and Retrieval Systems 	
Alice Hertel, Jeen Broekstra, Heiner Stuckenschmidt 	
pp. 489ff

Tableau-based Reasoning
Ralf Möller, Volker Haarslev 	
pp. 509ff

Resolution-Based Reasoning for Ontologies
Boris Motik
pp. 529ff	
	
Ontology Repositories 	
Jens Hartmann, Raul Palma, Asuncion Gomez-Perez 	
pp. 551ff

Ontology Mapping 	
Natalya F. Noy 	
pp. 573ff

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Part E: Ontology-based Infrastructures

Ontologies and Software Engineering 	
Dragan Gasevic, Nima Kaviani, Milan Milanovic 	
pp. 593ff

Semantic Web Services 	
Jos de Bruijn, Mick Kerrigan, Michal Zaremba, Dieter Fensel 	
pp. 617ff

Ontologies for Machine Learning 	
Stephan Bloehdorn, Andreas Hotho 	
pp. 637ff

Information Extraction 	
Claire Nedellec, Adeline Nazarenko, Robert Bossy 	
pp. 663ff

Browsing and Navigation in Semantically Rich Spaces: Experiences with
Magpie Applications
Martin Dzbor, Enrico Motta, Laurian Gridinoc 	
pp. 687ff

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Part F: Ontology-based Applications

Ontologies for Knowledge Management 	
Andreas Abecker, Ludger van Elst 	
pp. 713ff

Application of Ontologies in Bioinformatics
Robert Stevens, Phillip Lord 	
pp. 735ff

Semantic Portals for Cultural Heritage
Eero Hyvönen 	
pp. 757ff

Ontology-based Recommender Systems 	
Stuart E. Middleton, David De Roure, Nigel R. Shadbolt 	
pp. 779ff

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Author Index
pp. 797-798

Subject Index
pp. 799-811

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