are more profitably considered quality aspects not of the ontology as such, but of the environment through which the … ontology is made available to its users. Suggestions are presented as to how to use these factors in producing quality …

, then looks at a material ontology of institutional facts and speech acts which accounts for most of the content of such …

This paper argues that a community of interoperating information systems agents requires an ontology not only of the … material ontology of institutional fact, and a method of representing a subsumption lattice of behavioural protocols using the … shown to be compatible with the other aspects of the ontology. The resulting system is applied to a community of agents …

applications in the semantic web using ontologies. The conventional mereological or subtype-oriented refinement of the ontology is …

Information systems ontology is intended to facilitate interoperability among the many applications which are now … of the upper ontology movement is to develop an abstract description of what there is in the world, in an application …