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)
- The First IAOA Assembly and Election of the Executive Council is coming up ... (2D4X)
- Time-table as follows: (2D4Y)
- Announcement (by the IAOA Secretary) of Assembly and Election Process: April 6, 2010 (2D4Z)
- Nomination and Discussion opens: April 6, 2010 (2D50)
- Campaigning by candidates: starts upon completion of the nomination-verification-acceptance of a candidate (2D51)
- Nomination closes: April 23, 2010 (2D52)
- Campaigning and Discussion closes: April 26, 2010 (2D53)
- IAOA Assembly called to order (by the IAOA President): April 27, 2010 (2D54)
- Candidates list and other ballot items published: April 27, 2010 (2D55)
- Ballot opens: April 28, 2010 (2D56)
- Ballot closes: end-of-day May 3, 2010 (Monday, CEST) (2D57)
- Announcement of election results: May 5, 2010 (2D58)
- The Assembly will culminate in a face-to-face meeting (remote attendance supported) during FOIS in Toronto, Canada, on May 13, 2010 (2D59)
- New Executive Council takes office: May 13, 2010 (2D5A)
- Please refer to other details and clarification of the process at: IAOA_ExecutiveCouncil_Election_2010 (2D5B)
- Time-table as follows: (2D4Y)
- 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 IAOA website is at: http://www.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)