Formal Ontologies Meet Industry

The goal of a formal ontology is to provide a domain- and application- independent view of reality for modeling knowledge and dealing with the semantic dimensions of information that has indefinite expandability, content and context independence, and the ability to accommodate different levels of granularity. In this volume, Borgo (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, Instituto di Scienze e Technologie della Cognizione, Italy) and Lesmo (informatics, U. di Torino, Italy) present 15 papers from the Third International Workshop on Formal Ontologies Meet Industry, held in Italy in June 2008. Among the topics addressed by the papers are the role of a formal pragmatics in business ontology, utilizing ontologies for petrochemical applications, implicit metadata generation on the semantic desktop using task management as example, using background knowledge and context knowledge in ontology mapping, application scenarios in road traffic management of ontology-driven situation awareness systems, ontological domain coding for cultural heritage mediation, an ontology for environmental risk evaluation and health and safety risk evaluation for construction, and relationship discovery ontology in asymmetric warfare. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)