Ontologies: Expert Systems all over again?

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Table of Contents

Ontologies: Expert Systems all over again?

Motivations

What is an Ontology?

Keywords

Panelists

Chris Welty – Recent Work

Basic Revelation

What this means to us

Mike Uschold: The Boeing Company

Ontologies

Horses for Courses

Michael Gruninger – Research Interests

Why Ontologies?

Problems arising from Unintended Models

Problems with Interoperability

Deborah McGuinness – Current and Related Work

Ontologies vs. Expert Systems

Ontologies vs. Expert Systems

Ontologies vs. Expert Systems

Author: Chris Welty

Email: weltyc@cs.vassar.edu

Home Page: http://www.cs.vassar.edu/faculty/welty/

Other information:
This panel was presented at the 1999 American Association for Artificial Intelligence National Conference (AAAI-99). Panelists were Michael Uschold, Michael Gruninger, Fritz Lehmann, and Deborah McGuinness.

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