
Classification Made Relevant
How Scientists Build and Use Classifications and Ontologies
- 1st Edition - January 25, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Jules J. Berman
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 1 7 8 6 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 7 2 5 8 - 1
Classification Made Relevant: How Scientists Build and Use Classifications and Ontologies explains how classifications and ontologies are designed and used to analyze scientifi… Read more
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Classification Made Relevant: How Scientists Build and Use Classifications and Ontologies explains how classifications and ontologies are designed and used to analyze scientific information. The book presents the fundamentals of classification, leading up to a description of how computer scientists use object-oriented programming languages to model classifications and ontologies. Numerous examples are chosen from the Classification of Life, the Periodic Table of the Elements, and the symmetry relationships contained within the Classification Theorem of Finite Simple Groups. When these three classifications are tied together, they provide a relational hierarchy connecting all of the natural sciences.
The book's chapters introduce and describe general concepts that can be understood by any intelligent reader. With each new concept, they follow practical examples selected from various scientific disciplines. In these cases, technical points and specialized vocabulary are linked to glossary items where the item is clarified and expanded.
- Explains the theory and practice of classification, emphasizing the importance of classifications and ontologies to the modern fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and medicine
- Includes numerous real-world examples that demonstrate how bad construction technique can destroy the value of classifications and ontologies
- Explains how we define and understand the relationships among the classes within a classification and how the properties of a class are inherited by its subclasses
- Describes ontologies and how they differ from classifications and explains conditions under which ontologies are useful
1. Sitting in Class
2. Classification Logic
3. Ontologies and Semantics
4. Coping with Paradoxical or Flawed Classifications and Ontologies
5. The Class-Oriented Programming Paradigm
6. The Classification of Life
7. The Periodic Table
8. Classifying the Universe
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 25, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
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