The following are the advantages of Ontologies:
- Increased quality of entity analysis
- Increased use, reuse, and maintainability of the information systems
- Facilitation of domain knowledge sharing, with common vocabulary across independent software applications
Those who are familiar with the object-oriented programming paradigm or database design can easily relate the Ontological representation of the domain entities to classes or database schemas. The classes are generic representations of the entities that encapsulate properties and behaviors. One class can inherit behavior and properties from another class (is-a relationship). For example, a cat is an animal.
In this case, Animal is an abstract superclass of Cat. ...
