An Investigation into the Utilization of Ontology in Various Fields

Abstract

A survey was conducted on the use of ontology in diverse fields such as manufacturing, life sciences, finance, disaster management & firefighting, material characterization & cosmetics products, cybersecurity, medical, among others. The survey provides an outline of existing ontologies across different domains, without any evaluation being carried out. The focus is on describing the general application of ontology in present-day domains. According to the survey, notable endeavor has been invested in the creation of ontology within the data analytics, informatics & knowledge engineering, artificial intelligence, medical, and manufacturing system domains. However, there appears to have been only a restricted amount of effort put into developing ontology in tourism, virtualization domain, transportation services domains.