Applied Ontology

期刊简介：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.

【译文】应用本体论关注其最广泛意义上的信息内容。正如副标题所明确指出的，设想了两种广泛的内容研究活动：本体分析和概念建模。前者包括任何使用严谨的哲学或逻辑工具来调查感兴趣领域性质和结构的尝试；后者涉及我们用来模拟世界的认知和语言结构，以及我们为产生有用的计算模型（如信息系统方案或知识结构）而采用的各类分析工具和方法。应用本体论是第一本在跨学科视角下明确且独家关注本体分析和概念建模的期刊。它旨在通过仔细避免与学科导向期刊的不必要重复，在科学期刊领域确立一个独特的领域。因此，鼓励作者使用对那些非特定领域专家也能理解的语言，并且审稿过程将针对这一目标进行调整。例如，理论贡献的作者将被鼓励展示他们的理论对应用的关联性，而更多技术论文的作者将被鼓励展示一个有充分理论依据的视角的相关性。此外，该期刊仅当这些内容涉及相关内容问题时，才会发表关于表示语言或算法的论文，无论是在实际应用层面还是理论理解层面。同样，它也仅当明确确立了在本体分析和概念建模实践方面的贡献时，才会发表关于工具或实现系统的描述。