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Topics
We seek high-quality
papers on a wide range of topics. While authors may focus on fairly
narrow
and specific issues, all papers should emphasize the relevance of the
work described to formal ontology and to information systems. Papers
that completely ignore one or the other of these aspects will be
considered as lying outside the scope of the meeting. Topic areas of
particular interest to the conference are:
Foundational Issues
- Kinds of entity:
particulars vs. universals, continuants vs. occurrents, abstracta vs.
concreta, dependent vs. independent, natural
vs. artificial
- Formal relations:
parthood, identity, connection, dependence, constitution, subsumption,
instantiation
- Vagueness and
granularity
- Identity and change
- Formal comparison among
ontologies
- Ontology of physical
reality (matter, space, time, motion, ...)
- Ontology of biological
reality (genes, proteins, cells, organisms, ...)
- Ontology of mental
reality and agency (beliefs, intentions and other mental attitudes;
emotions, ...)
- Ontology of social
reality (institutions, organizations, norms, social relationships,
artistic expressions, ...)
- Ontology of the
information society (information, communication, meaning negotiation,
...)
- Ontology and Natural
Language Semantics, Ontology and Cognition
Methodologies and
Applications
- Top-level vs.
application ontologies
- Role of reference
ontologies; Ontology integration and alignment
- Ontology-driven
information systems design
- Requirements
engineering
- Knowledge engineering
- Knowledge management
and organization
- Knowledge
representation; Qualitative modeling
- Computational lexica;
Terminology
- Information retrieval;
Question-answering
- Semantic web; Web
services; Grid computing
- Domain-specific
ontologies, especially for: Linguistics, Geography, Law, Library
science, Biomedical science, E-business, Enterprise integration, ...
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