5. FOIS 2008: Saarbrücken, Germany

Invited Talks

• Michael Uschold: Ontology-Driven Information Systems: Past, Present and Future. 3-18

1. Foundations

• Barry Smith: Ontology (Science). 21-35
• Luc Schneider: The Ontological Square and its Logic. 36-48
• Frank Loebe, Heinrich Herre: Formal Semantics and Ontologies - Towards an Ontological Account of Formal Semantics. 49-62

2. Ontological Engineering

• Christiana Panayiotou, Brandon Bennett: Cognitive Context and Arguments from Ontologies for Learning. 65-78
• Pinar Wennerberg, Sonja Zillner, Manuel Möller, Paul Buitelaar, Michael Sintek: KEMM: A Knowledge Engineering Methodology in the Medical Domain. 79-91
• Krzysztof Janowicz, Patrick Maué, Marc Wilkes, Sven Schade, Franca Scherer, Matthias Braun, Sören Dupke, Werner Kuhn: Similarity as a Quality Indicator in Ontology Engineering. 92-105

3. Objects

• Zena Wood, Antony Galton: A New Classification of Collectives. 109-120
• Laure Vieu, Stefano Borgo, Claudio Masolo: Artefacts and Roles: Modelling Strategies in a Multiplicative Ontology. 121-134

4. Reasoning and Integration

• Özgür L. Özçep: Towards Principles for Ontology Integration. 137-150
• Chiara Ghidini, Luciano Serafini, Sergio Tessaris: Complexity of Reasoning With Expressive Ontology Mappings. 151-163
• Sebastian Wandelt, Ralf Möller: Island Reasoning for [Ascr ][Lscr ][Cscr ][Hscr ][Iscr ] Ontologies. 164-177

5. Scientific Domain Ontologies

• Mariano Fernández-López, Asunción Gómez-Pérez, María del Carmen Suárez-Figueroa: Selecting and Customizing a Mereology Ontology for its Reuse in a Pharmaceutical Product Ontology. 181-194
• Colin R. Batchelor: An Upper-Level Ontology for Chemistry. 195-207
• Boyan Brodaric, Femke Reitsma, Yi Qiang: SKIing with DOLCE: toward an e-Science Knowledge Infrastructure. 208-219

6. Processes and Events

• Haythem O. Ismail: On the Syntax and Semantics of Effect Axioms. 223-236
• Werner Ceusters, Maria Capolupo, Georges De Moor, Jos Devlies: Introducing Realist Ontology for the Representation of Adverse Events. 237-250

7. Vagueness

• Silvia Gaio: Granular Models for Vague Predicates. 253-265
• Joana Hois, Oliver Kutz: Counterparts in Language and Space - Similarity and [Sscr ]-Connection. 266-279
• Brandon Bennett, David Mallenby, Allan Third: An Ontology for Grounding Vague Geographic Terms. 280-293

8. Formal Concept Analysis

• Gaihua Fu, Anthony G. Cohn: Utility Ontology Development with Formal Concept Analysis. 297-310
• Rokia Bendaoud, Amedeo Napoli, Yannick Toussaint: A proposal for an Interactive Ontology Design Process based on Formal Concept Analysis. 311-323