Applied Ontology

An Interdisciplinary Journal of Ontological Analysis and Conceptual Modeling

Impact Factor
2022
1.367
CiteScore
2022
4.0

Volume

18, 4 issues

Latest issue

18:1 online 25 April 2023

Next issue

18:2 scheduled for July 2023

Back volumes

From volume 1, 2005

ISSN print

1570-5838

ISSN online

1875-8533

Aims & Scope

In recent years, the dramatic growth of information and communication technologies has led to an increasingly interdisciplinary approach to research and development activities in these fields. To exploit the immense opportunities of widespread networks effectively, designers of modern information systems need to combine the precision of formal semantics with the needs of cognitive transparency, as they incorporate increasingly sophisticated and heterogeneous information content. The recent explosion of interest on ontologies is an important component of this trend. Researchers in disciplines such as knowledge engineering, information systems modeling, artificial intelligence, formal and computational linguistics, information retrieval, library science, and knowledge management have come to realize that a solid foundation for their research calls for serious work in ontology, understood as a general theory of the types of entities and relations that make up their respective domains of inquiry. In all these areas, attention has started to focus squarely on the content of information, rather than on just the formats and languages used to represent that content.

Applied Ontology focuses on information content in its broadest sense. As the subtitle makes clear, two broad kinds of content-based research activities are envisioned: ontological analysis and conceptual modeling. The former includes any attempt to investigate the nature and structure of a domain of interest using rigorous philosophical or logical tools; the latter concerns the cognitive and linguistic structures we use to model the world, as well as the various analysis tools and methodologies we adopt for producing useful computational models, such as information systems schemes or knowledge structures. Applied Ontology is the first journal with explicit and exclusive focus on ontological analysis and conceptual modeling under an interdisciplinary view. It aims to establish a unique niche in the realm of scientific journals by carefully avoiding unnecessary duplication with discipline-oriented journals. For this reason, authors will be encouraged to use language that will be intelligible also to those outside their specific sector of expertise, and the review process will be tailored to this end. For example, authors of theoretical contributions will be encouraged to show the relevance of their theory for applications, while authors of more technological papers will be encouraged to show the relevance of a well-founded theoretical perspective. Moreover, the journal will publish papers focusing on representation languages or algorithms only where these address relevant content issues, whether at the level of practical application or of theoretical understanding. Similarly, it will publish descriptions of tools or implemented systems only where a contribution to the practice of ontological analysis and conceptual modeling is clearly established.

Applied Ontology aims at being a major publication forum for theoretical and applied research in a variety of topics, tentatively grouped together in research areas, examples of which are indicated in the list below.

  • Foundational issues • Philosophical foundations of ontology • Basic ontological categories and relations • Ontology, epistemology, and semiotics
  • Specialized ontologies • Ontology of time, events and processes • Ontology of space and geography • Ontology of physics and physical objects • Ontology of biomedicine • Ontology of mental entities • Ontology of agents and actions • Ontology of organizations and social reality • Ontology of the information society • Ontology of business and e-commerce • Ontology of law • Ontology of history, culture and evolution
  • Ontology development and ontology-driven conceptual modeling • Methodologies for ontology development • Impact of ontological analysis on current modeling practices • Best-practice examples and case studies
  • Ontology management • Tools for ontology development, analysis and comparison • Comparison and evaluation of ontologies • Ontology management, maintenance, versioning • Methodologies for ontology merging, alignment, and integration • Semantic Web
  • Ontology and language • Ontology and natural-language semantics • Ontology and lexical resources • Ontology and terminology • Ontology learning techniques and their evaluation • Role of ontology in natural-language systems
  • Ontology, cognition, perception • Conceptual schemas, perceptual invariances and ontological categorization • Psychological experiments evaluating the cognitive adequacy of ontological categories
  • Ontology and content standards • Library science • Knowledge organization • Museums and cultural repositories • Multimedia content • Product descriptions • Process and service descriptions • Biomedical and other scientific terminologies
  • Innovative ontology-based applications

Editorial Board

Editors-in-Chief

John Bateman
Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Sciences
Bremen University, Bremen, Germany

Janna Hastings
Medical Knowledge and Decision Support
Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care
Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich
and School of Medicine, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Founding Editors

Nicola Guarino
National Research Council Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies
(ISTC-CNR), Italy

Mark A. Musen
Stanford University
USA

Associate Editors

Philipp Cimiano
CITEC
University of Bielefeld, Germany

Giancarlo Guizzardi
University of Bolzano
Italy

Robert Hoehndorf
KAUST
Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Leo Obrst
The MITRE Corporation
USA

Barry Smith
State University of New York at Buffalo
USA

Michael F. Uschold
Reinvent Technology
Canada

Laure Vieu
IRIT-CNRS
Toulouse, France

Editorial Board

João Paulo Almeida
Federal University of Espírito Santo
Brazil

Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles
Université Paul Sabatier
Toulouse, France

Adrien Barton
IRIT-CNRS
Toulouse, France

Brandon Bennett
University of Leeds
United Kingdom

Thomas Bittner
State University of New York at Buffalo
USA

Alex Borgida
Rutgers University
USA

Stefano Borgo
ISTC-CNR
Trento, Italy

Mathias Brochhausen
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Little Rock, AR, USA

Boyan Brodaric
Natural Resources Canada
Ontario, Canada

Vinay Chaudhri
SRI International
USA

Christiane Fellbaum
Princeton University
USA

Roberta Ferrario
Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council
Trento, Italy

Aldo Gangemi
ISTC-CNR
Rome, Italy

Pawel Garbacz
The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
Poland

Yolanda Gil
University of Southern California
Marina del Rey, USA

Dagmar Gromann
University of Wien
Austria

Michael Gruninger
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada

Torsten Hahmann
University of Maine
USA

Heinrich Herre
University of Leipzig
Germany

Pascal Hitzler
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS, USA

Krzysztof Janowicz
University of California
Santa Barbara, USA

Ludger Jansen
Ruhr University of Bochum and University of Rostock
Germany

Paul Johannesson
Stockholm University
Sweden

Gilles Kassel
MIS Laboratory, Jules Verne University of Picardie
Amiens, France

Megan Katsumi
University of Toronto
Canada

Maria Keet
University of Cape Town
South Africa

Werner Kuhn
University of California
Santa Barbara, USA

Oliver Kutz
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Italy

Doug B. Lenat
Cycorp
Austin, USA

Claudio Masolo
ISTC-CNR
Trento, Italy

William E. McCarthy
Michigan State University
USA

Riichiro Mizoguchi
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Japan

Fabian Neuhaus
University of Magdeburg
Germany

Chris Partridge
BORO Solutions
London, United Kingdom

Maria Teresa Pazienza
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Italy

Daniele Porello
ISTC-CNR
Trento, Italy

Florian Probst
SAP Research
Darmstadt, Germany

Daniele Radicioni
University of Torino
Italy

Emilio Sanfilippo
University of Tours
France

Marco Schorlemmer
Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, IIIA-CSIC
Catalonia, Spain

Selja Seppälä
University College Cork
Ireland

Amit P. Sheth
Wright State University
Dayton, USA

Elena Simperl
University of Southampton
United Kingdom

Veda Storey
Georgia State University
Atlanta, USA

Hans Weigand
Tilburg University
The Netherlands

Bob Young
Loughborough University
United Kingdom

Assistant Editor

Mihai Pomarlan
Bremen University
Bremen, Germany

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