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Lead Editors: AliHashemi & ToddSchneider {nid 36II}

Co-Editors: MikeBennett, MaryBrady, CoryCasanave, HensonGraves, NicolaGuarino, AnatolyLevenchuk, ErnieLucier, LeoObrst, SteveRay, AmandaVizedom, MatthewWest, TrishWhetzel {nid 36IJ}

== Description {nid 36IC} ==

This year's Ontology Summit, '''''Ontology for Big Systems''''', sought to explore, identify and articulate how ontology, its methods and paradigms, can bring value to the disciplines required to engineer a "big system." {nid 36IM}

The term "big system" is intentionally vague and intended to cover a large scope that includes many of the terms encountered in the media including {nid 36IN}

* big data {nid 36IO}
* complex systems - techno-socio-economic {nid 36IP}
* intelligent or smart systems {nid 36IQ}
* cloud computing, {nid 36IR}
* net-centricity and {nid 36IS}
* collective intelligence. {nid 36IT}

Established disciplines that fall within the summit scope include (but not limited to) systems engineering, software engineering, information systems modeling, and data mining. {nid 36I9}

== Goals {nid 36ID} ==

The principal goal of the summit is to bring together and foster collaboration between the ontology community, systems community, and stakeholders in "big systems." {nid 36IU}

We will aim towards producing a series of recommendations describing how ontologies can create an impact; as well as providing illustrations where these techniques have been, or could be, applied in domains such as bioinformatics, electronic health records, intelligence, the smart electrical grid, manufacturing and supply chains, earth and environmental, e-science, cyberphysical systems and e-government. {nid 36IE}

== Process {nid 36IF} ==

This is our 7th annual OntologySummit season. Similar to our last 6 summits, this OntologySummit was comprised of 3 months of virtual discourse (over our archived mailing lists) and virtual panel sessions (over augmented conference calls), during which the summit participants exchanged ideas on how ontological analysis and ontology engineering make a difference, when applied in or to "big systems." {nid 36IZ}

The summit culminated in a 2-day face-to-face workshop/symposium held on 12-13 April 2012 at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) facility in Gaithersburg, Maryland, US. {nid 36IX}

As is traditional with the Ontology Summit series, the results will be captured in the form of a communiqué, with expanded supporting material provided on the web. {nid 36IB}

== Summary {nid 36IG} ==

== Introduction {nid 36IH} ==

== Endorsement {nid 36IL} ==

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