4. FOIS 2006:
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Brandon Bennett, Christiane Fellbaum (Eds.):
Formal Ontology in Information Systems, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference, FOIS 2006, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, November 9-11, 2006.
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications 150 IOS Press 2006, ISBN 978-1-58603-685-0
Invited Talks
Douglas B. Lenat:
Problems of Scale in Building, Maintaining and Using Very Large Formal Ontologies.
3
Antony Galton:
On What Goes On: The Ontology of Processes and Events.
4-11
1. Foundations and Methodology
Barry Smith:
Against Idiosyncrasy in Ontology Development.
15-26
Andrew U. Frank:
Distinctions Produce a Taxonomic Lattice: Are These the Units of Mentalese?
27-38
2. Space and Mereology
3. Ontology in Biology and Biochemistry
4. Actions and Events
Pierre Grenon:
Temporal Qualification and Change with First-Order Binary Predicates.
155-166
Pawel Garbacz:
The Instrumental Stit A Study of Action and Instrument.
167-178
5. General Ontological Issues
Alik Pelman:
A Blueprint for a Calculator of Intensions.
193-203
6. Linking and Merging Ontologies
David R. Koepsell:
Linking the Gene Ontology with Social Ontology: A Prolegomena to the Ontology of Personhood.
301-308
Eric Little,
Lowell Vizenor:
Principles for the Development of Upper Ontologies in Higher-level Information Fusion Applications.
309-320
Werner Ceusters:
Towards A Realism-Based Metric for Quality Assurance in Ontology Matching.
321-332
7. Maintaining and Exploiting Ontologies