books.google.co.uk - Just as ontology developed over the centuries as part of philosophy, so in recent years ontology has become intertwined with the development of the information sciences. Researchers in such areas as artificial intelligence, formal and computational linguistics, biomedical informatics, conceptual modeling,...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Formal_Ontology_in_Information_Systems.html?id=6-PLB7DiixAC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareFormal Ontology in Information Systems