Boundaries of the ontology of designing

The ongoing research in the field of computer ontologies, ontological engineering, decision-making systems as well as an emerging mutual interest for philosophic, physiological and linguistic aspects of ontology of designing among humanitarian and technical scientific communities have stipulated the need for further distinction of the boundaries of the researched scientific discipline. This paper continues and develops the ideas, presented by the author in the article titled “Scientific basis of ontology of designing”, published in the first issue of the journal in 2013. This work attempts to further outline the research area of the journal by elaborating the scientific problematic of the journal, making focuses and placing accents, relevant at the current stage of the discipline's development, to distinguish the place of the ontology of designing amongst the current well-established but ever-changing differentiation of sciences. The article presents the results of analysis performed on the key concepts of ontology of designing based on the scientometric resources of network origin. It is shown, that the conventional segregation of scientific disciplines was largely determined by their development, accumulated experience, traditions, cultural features of their genesis, linguistic and conceptual content. Ontology of designing is still considered to be an integrative scientific discipline based on methods of system and ontological analysis, information technologies, computer modeling, artificial intelligence, descriptive logic, CAD systems and decision-making support systems, data and knowledge bases.