Formal Ontology in Information Systems
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference (FOIS 2010)
Edited by Antony Galton and Riichiro Mizoguchi
IOS Press, 2010
ISBN 978-1-60750-534-1
The blurb from the back cover
Ontology began life in ancient times as a fundamental part of
philosophical enquiry concerned with the analysis and categorisation
of what exists. In recent years, the subject has taken a practical
turn with the advent of complex computerised information systems which
are reliant on robust and coherent representations of their subject
matter. The systematisation and elaboration of such representations
and their associated reasoning techniques constitute the modern
discipline of formal ontology, which is now being applied to such
diverse domains as artificial intelligence, computational linguistics,
bioinformatics, GIS, knowledge engineering, information retrieval, and
the Semantic Web. Researchers in all these areas are becoming
increasingly aware of the need for serious engagement with ontology,
understood as a general theory of the types of entities and relations
making up their respective domains of enquiry, to provide a solid
foundation for their work.
The conference series Formal Ontology in Information Systems
(FOIS) provides a meeting point for researchers from these and other
disciplines with an interest in formal ontology, where both
theoretical issues and concrete applications can be explored in a
spirit of genuine interdisciplinarity. This volume contains the
proceedings of the sixth FOIS conference, held in Toronto, Canada,
during 11-14 May 2010, including invited talks by Francis Jeffry
Pelletier, John Bateman, and Alan Rector, and the 28 peer-reviewed
submissions selected for presentation at the conference, ranging from
foundational issues to more application-oriented topics.
Antony Galton
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