Thanks, Leo. FYI ... everyone! =ppy
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On 8/27/06, Obrst, Leo J. <lobrst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Apologies for cross postings; please share with colleagues and
> students.
>
> ============================================= (02)
> Call for Participation
>
>
> FOIS-2006 <http://www.formalontology.org/fois-2006/fois-2006.htm/>
>
>
> International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems
>
>
> November 9-11, 2006
> Baltimore, Maryland (USA)
>
>
> November 8, 2006: Co-located Workshop: Biomedical Ontology in Action
> <http://www.imbi.uni-freiburg.de/medinf/kr-med-2006/> (separate
> registration required).
>
>
> Early registration is through October 9, 2006.
>
> Late registration will begin October 10, 2006.
>
>
> The conference hotel is: Inn at The Colonnade.
> <http://www.doubletree.com/en/dt/hotels/index.jhtml?ctyhocn=BWICUDT>
> The Inn at the Colonnade is right off the John Hopkins University
> campus, about a 5-10 min walk from the conference location, the new
> Charles Commons facility.
> (03)
> To register for FOIS 2006, please enter the appropriate information at
> the registration website
> <https://www.seattletech.com/registration/index.php?%20confno=584&stgun
> iv=119&PAYMENTS=TRUE> .
>
> ________________________________ (04)
> Conference Description
>
>
> Since ancient times, ontology, the analysis and categorisation of what
> exists, has been fundamental to philosophical enquiry. But, until
> recently, ontology has been seen as an abstract, purely theoretical
> discipline, far removed from the practical applications of science.
> However, with the increasing use of sophisticated computerised
> information systems, solving problems of an ontological nature is now
> key to the effective use of technologies supporting a wide range of
> human activities. The ship of Theseus and the tail of Tibbles the cat
> are no longer merely amusing puzzles. We employ databases and software
> applications to deal with everything from ships and ship building to
> anatomy and amputations. When we design a computer to take stock of a
> ship yard or check that all goes well at the veterinary hospital, we
> need to ensure that our system operates in a consistent and reliable
> way even when manipulating information that involves subtle issues of
> semantics and identity. So, whereas ontologists may once have shied
> away from practical problems, now the practicalities of achieving
> cohesion in an information-based society demand that attention must be
> paid to ontology.
>
>
>
> Researchers in such areas as artificial intelligence, formal and
> computational linguistics, biomedical informatics, conceptual modeling,
> knowledge engineering and information retrieval have come to realise
> that a solid foundation for their research calls for serious work in
> ontology, understood as a general theory of the types of entities and
> relations that make up their respective domains of inquiry. In all
> these areas, attention is now being focused on the content of
> information rather than on just the formats and languages used to
> represent information. The clearest example of this development is
> provided by the many initiatives growing up around the project of the
> Semantic Web. And, as the need for integrating research in these
> different fields arises, so does the realisation that strong principles
> for building well-founded ontologies might provide significant
> advantages over ad hoc, case-based solutions. The tools of formal
> ontology address precisely these needs, but a real effort is required
> in order to apply such philosophical tools to the domain of information
> systems. Reciprocally, research in the information sciences raises
> specific ontological questions which call for further philosophical
> investigations.
>
>
>
> The purpose of FOIS is to provide a forum for genuine interdisciplinary
> exchange in the spirit of a unified effort towards solving the problems
> of ontology, with an eye to both theoretical issues and concrete
> applications.
>
> ________________________________ (05)
> Organizing Committee
>
>
> Program Chairs
> Brandon Bennett (University of Leeds, UK) brandon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA and Berlin Brandenburg
> Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany)
> fellbaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Conference Chair
> Nicola Guarino (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy) guarino@xxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:guarino@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Local Chair
> Bill Andersen (Ontology Works, USA) andersen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Publicity Chair
> Leo Obrst (The MITRE Corporation, USA) lobrst@xxxxxxxxx
>
> ________________________________ (06)
> Important Dates
>
>
> Early registration is through October 9, 2006.
>
> Late registration will begin October 10, 2006.
> FOIS-06 Conference: November 9-11, 2006
> ________________________________ (07)
> Programme Committee
>
>
> * Bill Andersen (Ontology Works, USA)
> * Nicholas Asher (Department of Philosophy, University of Texas
> at Austin, USA)
> * Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (Research Institute for Computer
> Science, CNRS, Toulouse, France)
> * John Bateman (Department of Applied English Linguistics,
> University of Bremen, Germany)
> * Brandon Bennett (School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK)
> * Stefano Borgo (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR,
> Italy)
> * Joost Breuker (Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam,
> The Netherlands)
> * Roberto Casati (Jean Nicod Institute, CNRS, Paris, France)
> * Werner Ceusters (New York State Center of Excellence in
> Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, SUNY at Buffalo)
> * Tony Cohn (School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK)
> * Matteo Cristani (University of Verona, Italy)
> * Ernest Davis (Department of Computer Science, New York
> University, USA)
> * Martin Dörr (Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Heraklion,
> Greece)
> * Carola Eschenbach (Department for Informatics, University of
> Hamburg, Germany)
> * Jérôme Euzenat (INRIA Rhône-Alpes)
> * Christiane Fellbaum (Cognitive Science Laboratory, Princeton
> University, USA and Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and
> Humanities, Berlin, Germany)
> * Antony Galton (School of Engineering and Computer Science,
> University of Exeter, UK)
> * Aldo Gangemi (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Roma,
> Italy)
> * Pierdaniele Giaretta (Department of Philosophy, University of
> Verona, Italy)
> * Michael Gruninger (University of Toronto, Canada)
> * Nicola Guarino (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR,
> Trento, Italy)
> * Udo Hahn (Jena University, Germany)
> * Jerry Hobbs (University of Southern California, USA)
> * Eduard Hovy (University of Southern California, USA)
> * Ingvar Johansson (Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical
> Information Science, University of Saarbrücken, Germany)
> * Werner Kuhn (IFGI, Muenster)
> * Fritz Lehmann (USA)
> * Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa, Italy)
> * Leonardo Lesmo (Department of Computer Science, University of
> Torino, Italy)
> * Bernardo Magnini (Centre for Scientific and Technological
> Research, ITC, Trento, Italy)
> * David Mark (Department of Geography, State University of New
> York, Buffalo, USA)
> * William McCarthy (Michigan State University)
> * Chris Menzel (Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University,
> USA)
> * Simon Milton (Department of Information Systems, University of
> Melbourne, Australia)
> * Philippe Muller (Research Institute for Computer Science,
> University of Toulouse III, France)
> * John Mylopoulos (Department of Computer Science, University of
> Toronto, Canada)
> * Leo Obrst (The MITRE Corporation, USA)
> * Barbara Partee (University of Massachusetts, USA)
> * Massimo Poesio (Department of Computer Science, University of
> Essex, UK)
> * Ian Pratt-Hartmann (Department of Computer Science, University
> of Manchester, UK)
> * James Pustejovsky (Department of Computer Science, Brandeis
> University, USA)
> * David Randell (Imperial College London, UK)
> * Robert Rynasiewicz (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
> * Barry Smith (National Center for Ontological Research and
> Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo, USA; Institute for
> Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science, Saarbrücken, Germany)
> * John Sowa (Vivomind Intelligence Inc., USA)
> * Veda Storey (Department of Computer Information Systems,
> Georgia State University, USA)
> * Richmond Thomason (University of Michigan, USA)
> * Mike Uschold (The Boeing Company, USA)
> * Achille Varzi (Department of Philosophy, Columbia University,
> USA)
> * Laure Vieu (Research Institute for Computer Science, CNRS,
> Toulouse, France)
> * Chris Welty (IBM Watson Research Center, USA)
>
> ________________________________ (08)
> Co-located Workshop: Biomedical Ontology in Action
> <http://www.imbi.uni-freiburg.de/medinf/kr-med-2006/> .
>
>
> November 8, 2006, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
>
> Workshop organized by the National Center for Ontology Research (NCOR)
> and the Working Group on Formal (Bio-)Medical Knowledge Representation
> of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).
>
>
>
> Co-located with FOIS 2006.
>
>
>
> Please note that this workshop requires separate registration and
> separate payment of the Workshop fees at the above site.
>
> ________________________________ (09)
> Registration (010)
> Academic:
>
> Early: $250
> Late: $300
> Onsite: $350 (011)
> Corporate / Government
>
> Early $300
> Late: $400
> Onsite: $450 (012)
> Student:
>
> Early: $50
> Late: $75
> Onsite: $100 (013)
> Early registration is through October 9, 2006.
>
> Late registration will begin October 10, 2006.
>
>
>
> To register for FOIS 2006, please enter the appropriate information at
> the registration website
> <https://www.seattletech.com/registration/index.php?%20confno=584&stgun
> iv=119&PAYMENTS=TRUE> .
> ________________________________ (014)
> Accommodation
>
>
> Hotel: Inn at The Colonnade
> <http://www.doubletree.com/en/dt/hotels/index.jhtml?ctyhocn=BWICUDT>
> .This is the conference hotel. The Inn at the Colonnade is right off
> the John Hopkins University campus, about a 5-10 min walk from the
> conference location, the new Charles Commons facility. Special
> conference hotel rate is $129. Mention that you are part of the FOIS
> conference.
>
> ________________________________ (015)
> Conference Location
>
>
> The conference will take place at the very new Charles Commons facility
> of Johns Hopkins University. Charles Commons features conference space,
> a central dining facility, and a major campus bookstore.
>
> Charles Commons is located at 33rd Street between Charles and St. Paul
> Streets, Baltimore, Maryland. The address is: Charles Commons, John
> Hopkins University, 3301 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland
> 21218
>
> Some links for John Hopkins University <http://www.jhu.edu/> :
>
> John Hopkins University Main (Homewood) Campus Map.
> <http://www.jhu.edu/~tour/map.html>
>
> John Hopkins University Map (pdf).
> <http://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/information_about_hopkins/visitor_in
> formation/how_to_get_here/homewood_campus/pdf/campus_map_0206.pdf>
>
> Visitor Information for Johns Hopkins University.
> <http://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/information_about_hopkins/visitor_in
> formation/how_to_get_here/homewood_campus/pdf/campus_map_0206.pdf>
>
> Driving directions to John Hopkins University, and additional maps.
> <http://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/information_about_hopkins/visitor_in
> formation/how_to_get_here/homewood_campus/index.cfm>
>
> Johns Hopkins University, Wikipedia entry.
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johns_Hopkins_University>
>
> ________________________________ (016)
> Sponsors
>
>
> Ontology Works, Inc. <http://www.ontologyworks.com/> is a leading
> source of ontology construction software, ontology-based database
> software, and ontology-based information integration software.
> ________________________________ (017)
> Baltimore
>
>
> The following are some useful links for information about the city of
> Baltimore, Maryland.
>
> The Official Home Page of the City of Baltimore, Maryland
> <http://www.ci.baltimore.md.us/> .
>
> Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Association
> <http://www.baltimore.org/> .
>
> Wikipedia - Baltimore, Maryland
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore,_Maryland> .
> ________________________________ (018)
> Programme
>
>
> Provisional FOIS-06 schedule
> <http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/brandon/FOIS-06/schedule.html> .
> ________________________________ (019)
> Accepted Papers
>
>
> List of accepted papers
> <http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/brandon/FOIS-06/accepted/accepted.html> . (020)
> _____________________________________________
> Dr. Leo Obrst The MITRE Corporation, Information Semantics
> lobrst@xxxxxxxxx Center for Innovative Computing & Informatics
> Voice: 703-983-6770 7515 Colshire Drive, M/S H305
> Fax: 703-983-1379 McLean, VA 22102-7508, USA (021)
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