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Title: Need a lot of Ontology based Knowledge to use this book
Review: This book often introduces terms with little or no meaning. In the early chapters, it refers to various ontologies assuming the reader knows terms like frames, slots, ...etc. Ex: pg. 18 "Class Defintion (frames) have an (optional) addtional field that specifies whether the class definition is primitive (a subsumption axiom) or a non-primitive (an equivalence axiom)." I was more confused after reading the definition. The book has very few diagrams and does not always realize how important it is for a reader to understand a fundamental concept before they go on to learning new concepts - which are based on solid fundamentals.In later chapters, the case studies are helpful as one can start relating the myriad of concepts learned in previous chapters.It is obvious that the authors know their stuff but their teaching style has a lot to be desired.
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