Art der Publikation: Forschungsbericht

Epistemological Problems in Working with Ontologies - Arbeitsbericht

Autor(en):

Schütte, Reinhard; Zelewski, Stephan

Verlag:

Institut für Produktion und Industrielles Informationsmanagement

Nummer des Berichts oder Beitrags:

Nr.13

Ort(e):

Essen

Veröffentlichung:

2001

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Kurzfassung

The communication between agents does not only require the exchange of syntactically defined character strings. The agents also need to have a common knowledge background. AI-Research has been pursuing ontologies as an approach of formal language which can also be used to explicate knowledge backgrounds. Ontologies gain a particularly high practical relevance in the scope of the organizational knowledge management. Therefore information systems science has an increasing interest in ontologies. Based on a definition of the term ontology, this paper examines problems of the theory of knowledge and the theory of language, which might be created in the construction of ontologies. Ontologies are interpreted as a special case of conceptual models. Thus, the content of this paper can be applied not only to the strict framework of ontologies, but also to the problems of theory of science in the area of information modeling.