FOnt 2005
Foundational Aspects of Ontologies
Workshop at KI 2005, Koblenz,
Germany, September 2005
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FOnt 2005 |
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FOnt 2005 is sponsered by 
| 14:30 - 14:35 | Opening |
| 14.35 - 15.40 | Keynote by Till Mossakowski: Heterogeneous Formal Ontologies |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Claudio Masolo and Stefano Borgo: Qualities in Formal Ontology |
| coffee break | |
| 16.30 - 16.50 | Rainer Osswald: A Categorical Framework for Translating between Conceptual Hierarchies |
| 16:50 - 17:10 | Winfried Schmitz-Esser: Ontology-based understanding of scientific natural language texts |
| 17:10 - 17:30 | Douglas Foxvog: Instances of Instances via Higher-Order Classes |
| 17.30 - 17.50 | Sumit Sen: Ontologies of One way roads |
| 17.50 - 18:00 | Closing |
Representing and reasoning with ontologies is the core technology for the Semantic Web, and is growing in importance in many other areas of Computer Science where structured and hierarchically organized knowledge is of importance. While the need for ontological knowledge representation formalisms for practical applications is abundant, it is apparent that only conceptually and mathematically sound frameworks can provide the means for a significant technological advance in this area.
Indeed, formal and foundational aspects of ontologies are being studied in many application domains in order to serve practical needs. It lies in the nature of such fundamental research that a critical mass of different formal perspectives can generate a cross-fertilization of ideas and applications. We therefore intend to bring together researchers working on foundational aspects of ontologies in different application areas, in order to stimulate an exchange of ideas and methods between the subcommunities. We believe that a significant advance in understanding and establishing sound formal foundations for applied ontology research can this way be made.
The workshop is intended for researchers which contribute to the
We invite the submission of original papers that have not been submitted for review or been published elsewhere. Submitted papers must be written in English and should not exceed 15 pages. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality, relevance, originality, significance, and soundness. Papers must be submitted directly by email in PDF format to Pascal Hitzler (hitzler [at] aifb [dot] uni-karlsruhe [dot] de). Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, which will be distributed during the workshop.
June 10th, 2005: paper submission
July 15th, 2005: notification
August 5th, 2005: camera-ready versions
September 11th-14th: KI 2005
September 11th, 2005: workshop
Till Mossakowski, Department of Computer Science, Universität Bremen, Germany
Pascal
Hitzler, AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany
Carsten Lutz,
Department of Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany
Gerd
Stumme, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,
Universität Kassel, Germany
Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, Grenoble, France
Bernhard Ganter, TU Dresden, Germany
Joseph Goguen,
University of California at San Diego, California, USA
Wolfgang Hesse, Universität Marburg, Germany
Ian Horrocks, University of
Manchester, UK
Yannis Kalfoglou, University
of Southhampton, UK
Robert E. Kent, Ontologos, Pullman, USA
Markus Krötzsch, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany
Claudio Masolo, Institute of
Cognitive Science and Technology, Trento, Italy
Fabian Neuhaus,
Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany
Daniel Oberle, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany
Ulrike Sattler, University
of Manchester, UK
Marco Schorlemmer, CSIC Barcelona, Spain
Anthony
K. Seda, University College Cork, Ireland
Sergio Tessaris, Università di Bolzano, Italy
Rudolf Wille, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Guo-Qiang Zhang, Case Western
Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Contact Pascal Hitzler for all inquiries about the workshop.