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Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Volume 150, 2006
Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference (FOIS 2006)
Edited by Brandon Bennett, Christiane Fellbaum

ISBN  978-1-58603-685-0 (print)
ISBN  978-1-60750-211-1 (online)
$138.00 / € 75,00

Contents
Front Matter   i - xiii
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    Preface

Invited Talks  
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Problems of Scale in Building, Maintaining and Using Very Large Formal Ontologies   3
Doug Lenat
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On What Goes On: The Ontology of Processes and Events   4 - 11
Antony Galton
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1. Foundations and Methodology  
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Against Idiosyncrasy in Ontology Development   15 - 26
Barry Smith
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Distinctions Produce a Taxonomic Lattice: Are These the Units of Mentalese?   27 - 38
Andrew U. Frank
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Nontological Engineering   39 - 50
Wacław Kuśnierczyk
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Towards Foundational Semantics - Ontological Semantics Revisited   51 - 62
Philipp Cimiano, Uwe Reyle
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2. Space and Mereology  
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A theory of granular parthood based on qualitative cardinality and size measures   65 - 76
Thomas Bittner, Maureen Donnelly
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Spatial Dimensionality as a Classification Criterion for Qualities   77 - 88
Florian Probst, Martin Espeter
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The Image as Spatial Region: Location and Adjacency within the Radiological Image   89 - 100
James M. Fielding, Dirk Marwede
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3. Ontology in Biology and Biochemistry  
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From GENIA to BIOTOP - Towards a Top-Level Ontology for Biology   103 - 114
Stefan Schulz, Elena Beisswanger, Udo Hahn, Joachim Wermter, Anand Kumar, Holger Stenzhorn
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Modular Ontology Design Using Canonical Building Blocks in the Biochemistry Domain   115 - 127
Christopher J. Thomas, Amit P. Sheth, William S. York
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What is a Biological Function?   128 - 140
Patricia Diaz-Herrera
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4. Actions and Events  
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Simultaneous Events and the “Once-Only” Effect   143 - 154
Haythem O. Ismail
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Temporal Qualification and Change with First–Order Binary Predicates   155 - 166
Pierre Grenon
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The Instrumental Stit A Study of Action and Instrument   167 - 178
Pawel Garbacz
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Towards an ontology of agency and action From STIT to OntoSTIT+   179 - 190
Nicolas Troquard, Robert Trypuz, Laure Vieu
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5. General Ontological Issues  
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A Blueprint for a Calculator of Intensions   193 - 203
Alik Pelman
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A Dynamic Theory of Ontology   204 - 213
John F. Sowa
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Behavior of a Technical Artifact: An Ontological Perspective in Engineering   214 - 225
Stefano Borgo, Massimiliano Carrara, Pieter E. Vermaas, Pawel Garbacz
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A Reusable Ontology for Fluents in OWL   226 - 236
Chris Welty, Richard Fikes
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PR-OWL: A Framework for Probabilistic Ontologies   237 - 249
Paulo C.G. Costa, Kathryn B. Laskey
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Qualities in Possible Worlds   250 - 261
Stefano Borgo, Claudio Masolo
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6. Linking and Merging Ontologies  
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An Algebra for Composing Ontologies   265 - 276
Saket Kaushik, Csilla Farkas, Duminda Wijesekera, Paul Ammann
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Formalizing Ontology Alignment and its Operations with Category Theory   277 - 288
Antoine Zimmermann, Markus Krötzsch, Jérôme Euzenat, Pascal Hitzler
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Linking FrameNet to the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology   289 - 300
Jan Scheffczyk, Adam Pease, Michael Ellsworth
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Linking the Gene Ontology with Social Ontology: A Prolegomena to the Ontology of Personhood   301 - 308
David R. Koepsell
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Principles for the Development of Upper Ontologies in Higher-level Information Fusion Applications   309 - 320
Eric Little, Lowell Vizenor
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Towards A Realism-Based Metric for Quality Assurance in Ontology Matching   321 - 332
Werner Ceusters
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7. Maintaining and Exploiting Ontologies  
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Approximation of Ontologies in CASL   335 - 346
Klaus Lüttich
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OntOWLClean: Cleaning OWL ontologies with OWL   347 - 359
Chris Welty
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Using Selectional Restrictions to Query an OWL Ontology   360 - 371
Leila Kosseim, Reda Siblini, Christopher J.O. Baker, Sabine Bergler
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Author Index   373
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