- From: Bill Andersen <andersen@ontologyworks.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 17:27:54 +0200
- To: SUO <standard-upper-ontology@ieee.org>, RDF Logic <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>, Ontoweb <seweb-list@cs.vu.nl>
- CC: "Christopher A. Welty" <weltyc@cs.vassar.edu>, Barry Smith <phismith@buffalo.edu>, Nicola Guarino <Nicola.Guarino@ladseb.pd.cnr.it>
This is a reminder about the upcoming FOIS-2001 (International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems) to be held October 17-19, 2001 in Ogunquit, Maine. For detailed information and registration information, see http://www.fois.org/fois-2001/ Below is a description of the conference scope and goals. Work on theory and applications of ontology in information systems is gaining in momentum and importance, so this should be an exciting conference. Please forward this message to anyone you think will be interested. Thank you & we hope to see you in Maine. - Bill Andersen --- Research on ontology is becoming increasingly widespread in the computer science community. Its importance has been recognized in fields as diverse as e-commerce, enterprise and information integration, qualitative modelling of physical systems, natural language processing, knowledge engineering, database design, geographic information science, libraries, and intelligent information access. Insights in this field have potential impact on the whole area of information systems. In order to provide a solid general foundation for this work, it is important to focus on the common scientific principles and open problems arising from current tools, methodologies, and applications of ontology. We envision FOIS to be a unique gathering whose essential character is strongly interdisciplinary, and truly unlike any other conference. The program committee includes representatives of three broad disciplines: computer and information science, philosophy, and linguistics, and includes researchers from sub-areas as diverse as formal ontology, knowledge engineering, logic, database design, natural language processing, library science, knowledge representation, descriptive metaphysics, and geographic information systems. -- Bill Andersen Chief Scientist, Ontology Works 1132 Annapolis Road, Suite 104 Odenton, Maryland, 21113 Mobile 443-858-6444 Office 410-674-7600
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