International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) (1X95)
This is the home page of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) wiki. You can use this wiki for adding ontology related information that is relevant for the broader ontology community. For specific IAOA events, see the IAOA website. (24C1)
What's New: (1YGO)
- At the face-to-face segment of the IAOA First General Assembly on 13-May-2010 (co-located with FOIS-2010 in Toronto, Canada) an updated report on IAOA was presented by Dr. NicolaGuarino (President) and other members of the newly elected Executive Council. (2EAU)
- Over a virtual segment of the IAOA First General Assembly, an elected IAOA Executive Council came into being. See details of the process and the results at: IAOA_ExecutiveCouncil_Election_2010 (2D5B)
- The Introduction of IAOA at the Ontolog Forum - ConferenceCall_2009_06_18 (1YGP)
About IAOA: (2D5C)
The International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) is a non-profit organization the purpose of which is to promote interdisciplinary research and international collaboration at the intersection of philosophical ontology, linguistics, logic, cognitive science, and computer science, as well as in the applications of ontological analysis to conceptual modeling, knowledge engineering, knowledge management, information-systems development, library and information science, scientific research, and semantic technologies in general. (1X96)
The Association was formally established in Trento, Italy on April 29th 2009. (1X97)
The official IAOA website is at: http://iaoa.org (1X98)
Current Members of the IAOA Executive Council: (1ZP0)
This (elected) Executive Council took office on 13-May-2010 at the First Assembly of IAOA (Toronto, Canada) and the term of office will continue until 31-Dec-2012. (2D5D)
- Nicola Guarino, ISTC-CNR, Italy (President) (1ZP1)
- John Bateman, University of Bremen, Germany (Vice President) (1ZP2)
- Stefano Borgo, ISTC-CNR, Italy (1ZP3)
- Michael Gruninger, University of Toronto, Canada (1ZP6)
- Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil (2EAG)
- Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University, Japan (1ZP7)
- Leo Obrst, MITRE, US (1ZP9)
- Laure Vieu, IRIT-CNRS, France, and ISTC-CNR, Italy (Treasurer) (1ZPA)
- Peter Yim, Ontolog, US (Secretary) (1ZPB)