Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Ontology ....

The concepts with in a domain can be defined in a formal way and the relationships among those concepts all together called as ontology. There are many definitions for this term. The American Heritage Dictionary (4th ed.) provides the following definition: "The branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature of being." Tom Gruber says that "an ontology is a specification of a conceptualization."


JADE provides extensive support for Ontologies. It can be used to model distributed “agent” systems.


Source : http://jade.tilab.com/