This book brings together the development of philosophy, artificial intelligence and information systems to formulate functional requirements for collection of ontology development. Once the functional requirements defined, the book looks at several ontology representation languages: RDFS, OWL, Common Logic and Topic Maps, to show how these languages support functional requirements, what deficiencies exist, and how languages relate to one another. In addition to running a collection of examples used throughout this book, all backed by the treatment extended example of a hypothetical ontology for the Olympic Games first presented as a set of chapter-end exercise and then as a set of solutions that illustrate various points made in the text in the context of a single coherent development . IOS Press is an international scientific, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics, scientists, and professionals in all fields.