4. FOIS 2006: Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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
  
• Waclaw Kusnierczyk:
  Nontological Engineering. 39-50
  
• Philipp Cimiano, Uwe Reyle:
  Towards Foundational Semantics - Ontological Semantics Revisited. 51-62
  

2. Space and Mereology

• Thomas Bittner, Maureen Donnelly:
  A theory of granular parthood based on qualitative cardinality and size measures. 65-76
  
• Florian Probst, Martin Espeter:
  Spatial Dimensionality as a Classification Criterion for Qualities. 77-88
  
• James Matthew Fielding, Dirk Marwede:
  The Image as Spatial Region: Location and Adjacency within the Radiological Image. 89-100
  

3. Ontology in Biology and Biochemistry

• Stefan Schulz, Elena Beisswanger, Udo Hahn, Joachim Wermter, Anand Kumar, Holger Stenzhorn:
  From GENIA to BIOTOP - Towards a Top-Level Ontology for Biology. 103-114
  
• Christopher J. Thomas, Amit P. Sheth, William S. York:
  Modular Ontology Design Using Canonical Building Blocks in the Biochemistry Domain. 115-127
  
• Patricia Diaz-Herrera:
  What is a Biological Function? 128-140
  

4. Actions and Events

• Haythem O. Ismail:
  Simultaneous Events and the "Once-Only" Effect. 143-154
  
• 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
  
• Nicolas Troquard, Robert Trypuz, Laure Vieu:
  Towards an ontology of agency and action From STIT to OntoSTIT+. 179-190
  

5. General Ontological Issues

• Alik Pelman:
  A Blueprint for a Calculator of Intensions. 193-203
  
• John F. Sowa:
  A Dynamic Theory of Ontology. 204-213
  
• Stefano Borgo, Massimiliano Carrara, Pieter E. Vermaas, Pawel Garbacz:
  Behavior of a Technical Artifact: An Ontological Perspective in Engineering. 214-225
  
• Christopher A. Welty, Richard Fikes:
  A Reusable Ontology for Fluents in OWL. 226-236
  
• Paulo Cesar G. da Costa, Kathryn B. Laskey:
  PR-OWL: A Framework for Probabilistic Ontologies. 237-249
  
• Stefano Borgo, Claudio Masolo:
  Qualities in Possible Worlds. 250-261
  

6. Linking and Merging Ontologies

• Saket Kaushik, Csilla Farkas, Duminda Wijesekera, Paul Ammann:
  An Algebra for Composing Ontologies. 265-276
  
• Antoine Zimmermann, Markus Krötzsch, Jérôme Euzenat, Pascal Hitzler:
  Formalizing Ontology Alignment and its Operations with Category Theory. 277-288
  
• Jan Scheffczyk, Adam Pease, Michael Ellsworth:
  Linking FrameNet to the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology. 289-300
  
• 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

• Klaus Lüttich:
  Approximation of Ontologies in CASL. 335-346
  
• Christopher A. Welty:
  OntOWLClean: Cleaning OWL ontologies with OWL. 347-359
  
• Leila Kosseim, Reda Siblini, Christopher J. O. Baker, Sabine Bergler:
  Using Selectional Restrictions to Query an OWL Ontology. 360-371
  

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