Subject Area

A Subject Area is a set of interrelated concepts that is regularly accessed by some experts.

• AKA: Domain, Conceptual Domain, Subject Field.
• Context:
  • It can be a Subdomain.
  • It can be Represented by a Model (be modeled).
  • It can include Agents that can act and are versed within the Domain.
  • It can be the subject of an Academic Discipline, a Business, a ...
  • It can range from being a General Subject Area to a Specialized Subject Area.
• Example:
  • a Computing Science Subject Area such as:
    • Data Mining Subject Area,
    • Natural Language Processing Subject Area,
  • a Mathematics Subject Area such as:
    • Discrete Mathematics Subject Area,
    • Continuous Mathematics Subject Area,
  • Biology Subject Area such as:
    • Genetics Subject Area.
    • Biomedical Subject Area.
  • Business Subject Area such as:
    • project management,
    • product information management,
    • Solution Requirements Specification Subject Area (see http://www.factmodels.org/SRS1/v080630/),
    • Invoicing Subject Area.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Academic Discipline,
  • Knowledge Domain,
  • Research Domain,
  • Research Group.
• See: Function Domain, Domain Independent Relation, Domain Dependent Relation, Semantic Relation, Controlled Vocabulary.

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References

2009a

• (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ https://vocabulary.one/en/word/sphere
  • sphere: a particular environment or walk of life; "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit" territory over which rule or control is exercised; "his domain extended into Europe"; "he made it the law of the land"
  • a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about; "it was a limited domain of discourse"; "here we enter the region of opinion"; "the realm of the occult"

2009b

• (Wiktionary, 2009) ⇒ http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Domain
  • A geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization; A sphere of influence; A group of related items, topics, or subjects ...

2008

• (Corbett, 2008) ⇒ Dan R. Corbett. (2008). “Graph-based Representation and Reasoning for Ontologies.” In: Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78293-3 DOI:10.1007/978-3-540-78293-3.
  • QUOTE: An ontology in a given domain [math]\displaystyle{ M }[/math] with respect to a canon is a tuple (T_CM, T_RM, I_M), where
    • T_CM is the set of concept types for the domain [math]\displaystyle{ M }[/math] and T_RM is the set of relation types for the domain M.
    • “I_M is the set of individuals for the domain M.

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