ABSTRACT
In this chapter the classification procedures will be described by first examining some of the main considerations from the literature on the conceptualization framework of reality. This will include an exploration of extensional and intensional approaches, as well as the various types of classification commonly found in fields such as bibliographic studies, including enumerative and faceted approaches. The last part of this chapter will be dedicated to the classification domain knowledge organization and representation systems, by delving into the overview towards the description of the taxonomies and the ontologies, being the latter the classification tool chosen for the purposes of this research activity on ransomware knowledge systematization. The structures already existing within the Cybersecurity field of study from a semantic perspective are most of the time designed in a taxonomic direction usually expanded in an ontological configuration, as it can be observed in the analysis provided in Chapter 2. To be compliant with the granularity of information shared by the communities of experts, this research study presents the construction of a classification tool following the hierarchical structure characterizing the taxonomies extended through an ontology framework able to better represent the semantic connections among the domain-dependent concepts.
