Bibliography on Metaontology

The Deflationary Metaontology of Thomasson’s Ordinary Objects

“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax— Of cabbages—and kings— And why the sea is boiling hot— And whether pigs have wings.” (Lewis Carroll, The Walrus and the Carpenter) In Ordinary Objects, Thomasson pursues an integrated conception of ontology and metaontology. In ontology, she defends the existence of shoes, ships, and other ordinar...

Innovative Product Design using Metaontology with Semantic TRIZ

In the manufacturing industry, supply chain management is playing an important role in providing profit to the enterprise. Information that is useful in improving existing products and development of new products can be obtained from databases and ontology. The theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ) supports designers of innovative product design by searching a knowledge base. The existing ...

Modelling Ontology Evaluation and Validation

We present a comprehensive approach to ontology evaluation and validation, which have become a crucial problem for the development of semantic technologies. Existing evaluation methods are integrated into one sigle framework by means of a formal model. This model consists, firstly, of a metaontology called O, that characterises ontologies as semiotic objects. Based on O and an analysis of exist...

Qood grid: A metaontology-based framework for ontology evaluation and selection

The paper exemplifies the application of two models for ontology description, evaluation and selection. O is a metaontology (an ontology that has ontologies and ontology elements in its domain), based on semiotics, which describes four dimensions of ontologies as communication objects: structural, formal, conceptual, and pragmatical. Starting from a large set, measures have been singled out in ...

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