INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
FORMAL ONTOLOGY IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS

FOIS'98

In conjunction with
the 6th International Conference on Principles of
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
(KR'98)


TRENTO, ITALY, JUNE 6-8, 1998


Under the auspices of the Project
ONTOINT
(Ontological Tools for Heterogeneous Knowledge Organization and Integration)
funded by the Italian National Research Council

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Research on ontology is becoming increasingly widespread in the computer science community. Its importance has been recognized in fields as diverse as qualitative modelling of physical systems, natural language processing, knowledge engineering, information integration, database design, geographic information science, and intelligent information access. Insights in this field have potential impacts on the whole area of information systems. In order to provide a solid general foundation for this work, it is therefore important to focus on the common scientific principles and open problems arising from current tools, methodologies, and applications of ontology. The purpose of this conference is to take a first step in this direction.

The conference will have a strongly interdisciplinary character. Expected participants include computer science practitioners as well as linguists, logicians, and philosophers. Although the primary focus of the conference is on theoretical issues, methodological proposals as well as concrete applications from a well-founded theoretical perspective will be discussed.


TOPICS

Problem areas that will be addressed at the conference include:

THEORETICAL ISSUES

APPLICATION AREAS

TOOLS AND METHODOLOGIES


PROCEEDINGS

The proceedings will be published in the IOS-Press (Amsterdam) bookseries "Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applcations" and it will distributed to registered participants. A limited amount of extra-copies will be available at the KR'98 conference desk at a special reduced price. People registering to KR'98 or coordinated events can order the proceedings by checking the appropriate box in the KR'98 registration form. People who are not going to attend any of the KR'98 events can order such extra-copies by contacting the organizers at fois98@irst.itc.it.

SPONSORSHIPS

The conference is sponsored by the project ONTOINT (Ontological Tools for Heterogeneous Knowledge Organization and Integration), funded by the Italian National Research Council (CNR), and the following CNR institutes: Institute for Systems Theory and Biomedical Engineering (LADSEB-CNR), Institute of Psychology (IP-CNR), Institute for Biomedical Technologies (ITBM-CNR). Further Sponsors are the Italian Association for Artficial Intelligence (AI*IA) and the University of Modena. The conference is hosted by ITC-IRST Trento, Italy.

GRANTS

Some student grants reserved to AI*IA members are available. Feel free to ask the organizers for further monetary contributions reserved to well-motivated people with serious budget limitations.


CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

CONFERENCE CHAIR:

Nicola Guarino, National Research Council, LADSEB-CNR,
Corso Stati Uniti, 4, I-35127 Padova, Italy
e-mail: guarino@ladseb.pd.cnr.it
 

ORGANIZATION CHAIR:

Alessandro Artale, ITC-IRST
Povo, I-38050 Trento, Italy
e-mail: artale@irst.itc.it
 

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