Abstract
Today, computers anchored to electronic measuring devices, transducers, and telemetric systems are increasingly transforming into worldwide integrated information processing networks. And ontology science and engineering is getting a long-awaited and fully deserved recognition of a critical factor in the 21st century information and communications technology (ICT); above all, in building knowledge-driven intellectual technologies, meaningful machines and reasoning systems, the engine and driving force of the Global Knowledge Society (Novik, Abdoullaev, 1991). Providing the unifying modeling schemes and languages for sophisticated information technology, the cornerstone of knowledge societies, ontology is bridging the real world and the information universe, giving the dynamic world modeling fundamentals, principles, constructs, representations, and schemes for building a radically new class of intelligent technologies and knowledge systems, Ontological Technology.