Development of distributed information systems: Ontological approach

Abstract

The conceptual basics of using ontologies in the process of developing information systems were summarized and analyzed in the paper in the article. Author consider systematic and at the same time cognitive approach to development of distributed information systems. Here the ontology is used for managing, presentation and integration of diverse knowledge in a unified semantic model multifunctional system. As well, the article describes the composition of a single ontology as the basis of the semantic structure of the knowledge base model of distributed information system. The author proposes the principles of system-cognitive analysis of object-oriented domain knowledge and ontological synthesis algorithm and formalization description of models of the semantic structure of objects, processes and classes of problems the problem space of knowledge.