Introduction to Ontologies and Semantic Web

This site introduces ontologies and semantic web, with the emphasis on how ontologies are defined and used for semantic web applications today (more about this site background is here). This tutorial is extracted from the introductory chapter of the dissertation that deals with the applications of ontologies in multi-agent systems - Marek Obitko (advisor Vladimir Marik): Translations between Ontologies in Multi-Agent Systems, Ph.D. dissertation, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, 2007.

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