We had, on Thursday 05-Jun-2008, another great session with invited
speaker Professor William E. McCarthy (Michigan State University), who
gave a very comprehensive talk on the Resource-Event-Agent (REA)
Ontology, which has, through the years, made it to accounting
literature and textbooks, as well as having attained the status of
international standards. The talk was entitled: "Ontologically-Driven
Standards Development for Business Process Systems." (01)
A huge "Thank You" to Professor McCarthy for the great session and for
sharing your work and insights with us. And as always, our
appreciations go out to all who joined us at the event; especially for
their contributions to the rich discussion during the last segment of
the session. (02)
Full proceedings of the session are captured on our wiki page, at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_06_05 (03)
In particular, audio recording of the session, as well as the podcast
of it, is now available -
see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_06_05#nid1IIJ (04)
This contribution from Professor McCarthy, which one can view as a
follow-up from Bill's first talk on the REA Ontology, which he
presented at the Ontolog Forum back on 17-Mar-2005, is adding yet
another key piece of knowledge toward helping us bring about Ontolog's
mission of advancing the field of ontology through advocating their
adoption into mainstream applications and international standards.
Thank you again, Bill and everyone! (05)
Best regards. =ppy (06)
Peter Yim
Co-convener, ONTOLOG (07)
P.S. Again, we will be featuring Dr. Christopher Welty (from IBM
Research, and Chair of the W3C RIF Working Group) who will be giving a
talk on "RIF: Rules Interchange Format" this Thursday, 12-Jun-2008.
RSVP now, if you haven't already (by emailing <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
off-line.) (08)
Watch our [ontolog-invitation] list for further announcements of
Ontolog events that may be of interest, or browse the listing under
the "News & Announcements" section at our Ontolog WikiHomePage (at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidW ) for our
upcoming events. (09)
An archive of noteworthy past Ontolog events can be found at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidZ (010)
Tx. =ppy
-- (011)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: Ontolog invited speaker session - Professor William E.
McCarthy (MSU) - Thu 2008.06.05
To: ontolog-invitation@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (012)
Re: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_06_05 (013)
*REMINDER* (014)
The Ontolog virtual event with invited speaker, Professor Bill
McCarthy (Michigan State University) is coming tomorrow - Thursday,
05-Jun-2008 (starting at 10:30am PDT / 1:30pm EDT / 17:30 UTC). (015)
According to Professor Bill McCarthy, the ontology spectrum of Dr. Leo
Obrst (MITRE) poses a challenge for researchers and developers trying
to build standards for business process interoperability, because it
envisions a notion of clear structural progress toward the goal of
full semantic expressiveness. In Bill's opinion, this notion of
structural progress needs to be augmented with the idea of domain
completeness which he considers to be the ability of a domain theory
to explain the separate and distinctly different aggregation level of
its theory components. (016)
In this session, Professor McCarthy will discuss these notions of
structural and domain progress by using the example of the REA
ontology (originally posed as an accounting domain theory) and its
realization in one final international standard and in one ongoing
standards development project: (017)
1. The Open-edi Business Transaction Model (ISO/IEC 15944-4); and (018)
2. The REA Specialization Module for the UN/CEFACT Modeling Methodology (UMM). (019)
Bill will also discuss some more general ontology development ideas
that arose from consideration of these projects at the NSF-sponsored
Workshop on Financial Interoperability that just occurred Last month
(May 12-13 in Arlington, Virginia). (020)
Anyone interested in the topic, especially those working on developing
standards and can see the value in applying ontology methods and
formalizations, should come join us and exchange insights with Bill
and with each other. (021)
*RSVP* by e-mailing the sender <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> off-line (if you
aren't already on the [ontolog-invitation] list, kindly include your
name, affiliation and job title as well) if you are planning to attend
and haven't already responded. (022)
We look forward to having you at the session. Please refer to all
agenda and call-in details on the session page, whose link appears at
the top of this message. (023)
Regards. =ppy (024)
Peter P. Yim
Co-convener, ONTOLOG
-- (025)
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:33 PM, Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
[updated - ref. the Thu 19 Jun 2008 event with Dr. Mark Greaves on "Halo"] (026)
> ****************** Headlines *********************** (027)
> We have lined up four exciting events for the month of June 2008, and
> take pleasure in inviting you to join us: (028)
> *Thu 05 Jun 2008* - Professor William McCarthy (Michigan State
> University) will be giving a talk on "Ontologically-Driven Standards
> Development for Business Process Systems." ... *RSVP now*! (029)
> *Thu 12 Jun 2008* - Dr. Christopher Welty (IBM Research), chair of
> the W3C RIF Working Group, will present on the next in semantic web
> standards - "Rules Interchange Format (RIF)." (030)
> *Thu 19 Jun 2008* - Dr. Mark Greaves (Vulcan) will be talking
> about the intriguing Halo project, as they emerge from stealth
> mode after a recent comprehensive evaluation of their Phase-II
> results. (031)
> *Thu 26 Jun 2008* - we will be having a panel session on "Rules in
> Semantic Web Applications." Our panelists will include (chair) Dr. Leo
> Obrst (MITRE), Dr. Jos de Bruijn (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano,
> Italy), Mr. Martin O'Connor (Stanford) & Mr. Mike Dean (BBN) (032)
> *Register your attendance* by emailing <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> off-line.
> Please specify the date of name of the session(s) you are registering
> for. (033)
> ******************** Details ************************ (034)
> These online events, like all Ontolog virtual events, are open and free
> of charge. Anyone who is interested, or (better still) who may have
> something to contribute, is welcome. Please refer to event details
> on the session page, to which the hyperlink is given below, where you
> will find session agenda, conference call dial-in and other pertinent
> information. Feel free to pass this invitation along to colleagues who
> may also find these sessions to be of interest. (035)
> As part of the invited speaker series (which started in May-2003), we
> are proud to continue to present some of the best work, from around
> the world, that is relevant to the community. You are cordially
> invited to join us at the four upcoming sessions this month: (036)
> *Thu 05 Jun 2008* - Professor William McCarthy (Michigan State
> University) will be giving a talk on "Ontologically-Driven Standards
> Development for Business Process Systems." Professor McCarthy will
> discuss the challenges for researchers and developers trying to build
> standards for business process interoperability and share his insights
> gained through the experience in creating the REA ontology (originally
> posed as an accounting domain theory) and its realization in one final
> international standard (the Open-edi Business Transaction Model
> [ISO/IEC 15944-4]) and in one ongoing standards development project
> (the REA Specialization Module for the UN/CEFACT Modeling Methodology
> [UMM]) ... Please refer to details on the session page at:
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_06_05 (037)
> *Thu 12 Jun 2008* - Dr. Christopher Welty (IBM Research), chair of
> the W3C RIF Working Group, will present on the next in semantic web
> standards - "Rules Interchange Format (RIF)." After working for the
> last 2.5 years, the W3C RIF WG has finally settled on a "Basic Logic
> Dialect" (RIF-BLD) as a core rules language for logic-based rule
> systems (e.g. FOL, stable-model LP, well founded LP, etc.). In this
> talk Dr. Welty will review RIF-BLD, its syntax and semantics, and talk
> about future plans. ... Please refer to details on the session page
> at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_06_12 (038)
> *Thu 19 Jun 2008* - since Phase-I, the Halo project has long been
> considered one of the biggest challenges put in front of semantic
> technology and AI researchers. Invited speaker Dr. Mark Greaves
> Director, Knowledge Systems at Vulcan, Inc.) will be talking about this
> ambitious, multiyear research program to develop a detailed scientific
> knowledge base that can answer AP-level questions and provide
> explanations in a user-appropriate manner; describing how Halo
> researchers have been working to link Semantic Web technology
> with the other knowledge representations in the system.
> ... Please refer to details on the session
> page at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_06_19 (039)
> *Thu 26 Jun 2008* - this popularly requested panel session (promised
> since Oct. 2007) on "Rules in Semantic Web Applications" is finally
> materializing. On the panel will be (chair) Dr. Leo Obrst (MITRE), Dr.
> Jos de Bruijn (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy), Mr. Martin
> O'Connor (Stanford) & Mr. Mike Dean (BBN). ... Please refer to details
> (closer to the time) on the session page at:
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_06_26
> (040)
> *RSVP* by emailing Peter Yim at <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> offline so that
> we can prepare enough resources to support everyone. State clearly the
> date of the session you are registering for.
> (041)
> The sessions will be recorded. Before participating, please make sure
> you are cognizant of our IPR policy (ref:
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid32).
> (042)
> Regards. =ppy
>
> Peter Yim
> Co-convener, Ontolog
> --
> (043)
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