Designing a top-level ontology of human beings: a multi-perspective approach

Knowledge about human beings is an integral part of any intelligent agent of considerable significance. Delimiting, modeling and acquiring such knowledge are the central topics of this paper. Because of the tremendous complexity in knowledge of human beings, we introduce a top-level ontology of human beings from the perspectives of psychology, sociology, physiology and pathology. This ontology is not only an explicit conceptualization of human beings, but also an efficient way of acquiring and organizing relevant knowledge.