Ontologies vs. Rules — Comparison of Methods of Knowledge Representation Based on the Example of IT Services Management

Adam Czarnecki; Tomasz Sitek

Ontologies vs. Rules — Comparison of Methods of Knowledge Representation Based on the Example of IT Services Management

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This text provides a brief overview of selected structures aimed at knowledge representation in the form of ontologies based on description logic and aims at comparing them with their counterparts based on the rule-based approach. Due to the limitations on the length of the article, only elements associated with the representation of concepts could be shown, without including roles. The formalisms of the OWL language were used to record ontologies, while the rules were expressed in Prolog. To better illustrate these two ways of knowledge representation, examples of best practices from the field of IT services management were used, which are contained in a set of publications known as the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). The purpose of the comparison is to examine the possibility of using an ontological approach in situations where the use of rule-based solutions is problematic.

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Category:: Monographic publication
Type:: rozdział, artykuł w książce - dziele zbiorowym /podręczniku w języku o zasięgu międzynarodowym
Title of issue:: Information Systems Architecture and Technology: Intelligent Information Systems, Knowledge Discovery, Big Data and High Performance Computing strony 99 - 109
Language:: English
Publication year:: 2013
Bibliographic description:: Czarnecki A., Sitek T.: Ontologies vs. Rules — Comparison of Methods of Knowledge Representation Based on the Example of IT Services Management// Information Systems Architecture and Technology: Intelligent Information Systems, Knowledge Discovery, Big Data and High Performance Computing/ ed. Leszek Borzemski, Adam Grzech, Jerzy Świątek, Zofia Wilimowska Wrocław: Oficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Wrocławskiej, 2013, s.99-109
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