Tuesday, October 16, 2001 | ||
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| 18:30 - 21:00 | Opening Registration and Reception | |
Wednesday, October 17, 2001 | 8:30 | Registration |
| 9:00 | Introductory Remarks by Conference Chairs | |
| 9:15 | Opening PlenaryTalk E. J. Lowe (Durham University, UK): Recent Advances in Metaphysics | |
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10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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| General and Methodological Session Chair: Nicola Guarino | ||
| 11:00 | Ian Niles and Adam Pease: Origins of the IEEE Standard Upper Ontology | |
| 11:30 | Ariel Fuxman, Paolo Giorgini, Manuel Kolp and John Mylopoulos: Information Systems as Social Structures | |
| 12:00 | David D. McDonald: The View from the Trenches: Issues
in the Ontology of Restricted Domains |
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| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| Upper-Level Ontologies Session Chair: Dagobert Soergel | ||
| 14:00 | Wolfgang Degen, Barbara Heller, Heinrich Herre and Barry Smith: GOL: Towards an Axiomatized Meta-Level Ontology | |
| 14.30 | Atanas Kiryakov, Kiril Simov and Marin Dimitrov: OntoMap: Portal for Upper-Level Ontologies | |
| 15:00 | Brandon Bennett: Space, Time, Matter and Things |
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| 15:30 | Coffee Break | |
| Models and Axioms Session Chair: Michael Gruninger | ||
| 16:00 | John Howse, Fernando Molina, Sun-Joo Shin, John Taylor: Type-Syntax
and Token-Syntax in Diagrammatic Systems |
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| 16:30 | Carola Eschenbach: Composition Tables as Axiomatic Systems | |
| 17:00 |
Anthony G. Cohn: Formalising Bio-Spatial knowledge | |
| 18:00 | Dinner (on your own) | |
| 20:30 | Panel: What Do E-Commerce Ontologists
Actually Do? Chair: David Koepsell Leo Obrst, Robert Wray and Howard Liu: Ontology Engineering for E-Commerce: A Real B2B Example Richard Beatch (Kanisa): Ontologies and Categories in E-Business Bill Anderson (OntologyWorks): XML and Ontologies David Koepsell (Ontology Works and Buffalo Center for Ontology): Ontologies and the Economy of Web Services | |
Thursday, October 18, 2001 | ||
| Natural Language, Mereotopological Ontology Session Chair: James Pustejovsky |
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| 9:00 | Sergei Nirenburg and Victor Raskin: Ontological Semantics,
Formal Ontology, and Ambiguity |
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| 9:30 | Danny Bobrow, Cleo Condoravdi, Dick Crouch, J Everett, V
Paiva, R Stolle, M van den Berg: Preventing Existence |
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| 10:00 |
Dimiter Vakarelov, Ivo Duentsch, and
Brandon Bennett: On Proximity
Spaces and Connection-Based Mereology |
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| 10:30 |
Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 | Plenary Talk by Larry Barsalou (Emory
University) The Human Conceptual System |
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| 12:30 | Lunch (on your own) | |
| 14:30 | Student Session
Chair: Eric Little | |
| 15:30 | Breakout Sessions (in parallel)
Chair: Barry Smith Chair: Michael Uschold | |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner with Talk Patrick Hayes (University of West Florida): The Emporer's Old Clothes: Why Philosophy is Irrelevant to Ontology |
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Friday, October 19, 2001 | ||
| Biomedical Ontologies Session Chair: Michael Uschold |
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| 9:00 | Stefan Schulz and Udo Hahn:
Mereotopological Reasoning about Parts and (W)Holes in Bio-Ontologies |
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| 9:30 | Anita Burgun and Olivier Bodenreider:
Aspects of the Taxonomic Relation in the Biomedical Domain |
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| 10:00 | Coffee Break | |
| Identity and Constraints Session Chair: Bill Andersen |
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| 10:30 | Aaron Kaplan: Towards a Consistent Logical Framework for Ontological Analysis | |
| 11:00 | Carrara Massimiliano and Giaretta Pierdaniele: Identity Criteria and Sortal Concepts | |
| 11:30 | Chris Menzel and Mike Gruninger: A Formal Foundation for
Process Modeling |
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| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| Lexical Resources, Information Integration Session Chair: Claudio Masolo |
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| 13:30 | Paola Velardi, Michele Missikoff and Paolo Fabriani: Using Text Processing Techniques to Automatically Enrich a Domain Ontology | |
| 14:00 | Aldo Gangemi, Nicola Guarino, and Alessandro Oltramari: Conceptual Analysis of Lexical Taxonomies: The Case of WordNet | |
| 14:30 |
Farshad Hakimpour and Andreas Geppert: Resolving
Semantic Heterogeneity in Schema Integration: Ontology Based Approach |
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| 15:00 |
Coffee Break |
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| Vagueness, Granularity, Processes Session Chair: Heinrich Herre |
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| 15:00 |
Thomas Bittner and Barry Smith: Vagueness and
Partitions |
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| 15:30 |
Maureen Donnelly: Introducing Granularity-Dependent
Quantitative Distance and Diameter Measures in Common-Sense Reasoning Contexts |
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| 16:00 |
Closing session: Discussion, future, and wrapup |
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