As a guest user you are not logged in or recognized by your IP address. You have
access to the Front Matter, Abstracts, Author Index, Subject Index and the full
text of Open Access publications.
In recent years ontologies and semantic technologies more generally have begun to be applied to assist the intelligence community, for information integration, information-sharing, decision-support, and in many other applications. This chapter introduces the topic of the book and provides background information concerning its rationale, historical perspective, a vision for the future, and briefly describes the chapters of the present volume.