18.296 conference: Formal Ontology in Information Systems

               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 18, No. 296.
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         Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:49:09 +0100
         From: "Jos Lehmann" <joslehmann_at_www.ip.rm.cnr.it>
         Subject: FOIS-2004: LAST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

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FOIS-2004 LAST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems
<http://fois2004.di.unito.it/>http://fois2004.di.unito.it/
November 4-6, 2004, Torino (Italy)

Conference Location:
Conference Centre <http://www.torinoincontra.org/>Torino Incontra
Via Nino Costa 8 - 10123 TORINO
Tel. +39-11-557.68.00
Check out conference program & registration details on
<http://fois2004.di.unito.it/>http://fois2004.di.unito.it/ or below!
Looking forward to meeting you in Torino!
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FOIS-2004 Conference Program
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Wendesday, November 3
Workshop on the Potential of Cognitive Semantics for Ontologies
<http://fois2004.di.unito.it/workshops.html>http://fois2004.di.unito.it/workshops.html

Thursday, November 4
   8:45-9:15 Registration and Reception
   9:15-9:30 Welcome Addresses
   9:30-10:30 Invited Talk: Amie L. Thomasson: Methods of Categorization
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Session 1: Categories
    Thomas Bittner, Maureen Donnelly, Barry Smith: Individuals, Universals,
Collections: On the Foundational Relations of Ontology
    Fabian Neuhaus, Pierre Grenon, Barry Smith: A Formal Theory of
Substances, Qualities, and Universals
    Jonathan Simon: How to Be a Bicategorialist
12:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Session 2: Perspectives
    Barry Smith: Beyond Concepts: Ontology as Reality Representation
    Simon K Milton: Top-Level Ontology: The Problem with Naturalism
    Joseph A. Goguen: Ontology, Society, and Ontotheology
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-18:30 Session 3: Methodology
    Brandon Bennett: Relative Definability in Formal Ontologies
    William Andersen, Christopher Menzel: Modal Rigidity in the OntoClean
Methodology
    Massimiliano Carrara, Pierdaniele Giaretta, Vittorio Morato, Marzia
Soavi, Giuseppe Spolaore: Identity and Modality in OntoClean
    Klaus Lüttich, Till Mossakowski: Specification of Ontologies in CASL

Friday, November 5
   9:00-10:00 Invited Talk Peter Gärdenfors: How to Make the Semantic Web
More Semantic
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:30 Session 4: Semantics and Cognition
    Martin Raubal: Formalizing Conceptual Spaces
    Nicholas Asher, Pascal Denis: Dynamic Typing for Lexical Semantics - A
Case Study: The Genitive Construction
    Massimo Poesio, Abdulrahman Almuhareb: Feature-Based vs. Property-Based
KR: An Empirical Perspective
    Olivier Bodenreider, Barry Smith, Anita Burgun: The
Ontology-Epistemology Divide: A Case Study in Medical Terminology
12:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Session 5: Social Reality
    Guido Boella, Leendert van der Torre: An Agent-Oriented Ontology of
Social Reality
    Joost Breuker, Rinke Hoekstra: Core Concepts of Law: Taking Common Sense
Seriously
    John Bateman: The Place of Language within a Foundational Ontology
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-18:30 Session 6: Space, Time and Causality
    John Bateman, Scott Farrar: Towards a Generic Foundation for Spatial
Ontology
    Maureen Donnelly: Relative Places
    John Stell, Matthew West: A Four-Dimensionalist Mereotopology
    Jos Lehmann, Stefano Borgo, Claudio Masolo, Aldo Gangemi: Causality and
Causation in DOLCE

Saturday, November 6
   9:00-10:30 Session 7: Mind and Action
    Roberta Ferrario, Alessandro Oltramari: Towards a Computational Ontology
of Mind
    Walter ten Brinke, David McG. Squire, John Bigelow: Supervenience in
Content-Based Image Retrieval
    Dnyanesh Rajpathak, Enrico Motta: An Ontological Formalization of the
Planning Task
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-13:00 Session 8: Ontological Analysis
    Stefan Schulz, Udo Hahn: Ontological Foundations of Biological Continuants
    Mariano Fernández-López, Asunción Gómez-Pérez: Searching for a Time
Ontology for Semantic Web Applications
    Mariana Casella dos Santos, James Matthew Fielding, Christoffel Dhaen,
Werner Ceusters: Philosophical Scrutiny
      for Run-Time Support of Application Ontology Development
    Palash Bera, Yair Wand: Analyzing OWL Using a Philosophy-Based Ontology
13:00-13:15 Conclusion
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