This thesis offers in introduction into ontology in philosophy and informatics. In philosophy, ontology is the study of the most general features of reality. In the field of Informatics the term ontology is starting to be used more often and numerous "ontological approaches" have been proposed recently. In the chapter about ontology in philosophy the meaning is explained on the background of history of philosophy. There generally three meanings of ontology: as a theoretical discipline, as a theory about the structure of reality and as a concrete artefact. It is argued that every science needs a sound ontological base and that the need for ontology increases in times of scientific discovery. The aim of the chapter about ontology in informatics is to show the need and application possibilities for an ontological approach in conceptual modelling, domain engineering and in the area of semantic web. In the end there is a discussion of the terminological confusion about ontology in informatics.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:77156 |
| Date | January 2008 |
| Creators | Murín, Jozef |
| Contributors | Řepa, Václav, Vacura, Miroslav |
| Publisher | Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Slovak |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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