5. FOIS 2008: Saarbrücken, Germany

Carola Eschenbach, Michael Grüninger (Eds.): Formal Ontology in Information Systems, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference, FOIS 2008, Saarbrücken, Germany, October 31st - November 3rd, 2008. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications 183 IOS Press 2008, ISBN 978-1-58603-923-3 BibTeX

Invited Talks

Michael Uschold: Ontology-Driven Information Systems: Past, Present and Future. 3-18 BibTeX

Barry Smith: Ontology (Science). 21-35 BibTeX
Luc Schneider: The Ontological Square and its Logic. 36-48 BibTeX
Frank Loebe, Heinrich Herre: Formal Semantics and Ontologies - Towards an Ontological Account of Formal Semantics. 49-62 BibTeX

Christiana Panayiotou, Brandon Bennett: Cognitive Context and Arguments from Ontologies for Learning. 65-78 BibTeX
Pinar Wennerberg, Sonja Zillner, Manuel Möller, Paul Buitelaar, Michael Sintek: KEMM: A Knowledge Engineering Methodology in the Medical Domain. 79-91 BibTeX
Krzysztof Janowicz, Patrick Maué, Marc Wilkes, Sven Schade, Franca Scherer, Matthias Braun, Sören Dupke, Werner Kuhn: Similarity as a Quality Indicator in Ontology Engineering. 92-105 BibTeX

Zena Wood, Antony Galton: A New Classification of Collectives. 109-120 BibTeX
Laure Vieu, Stefano Borgo, Claudio Masolo: Artefacts and Roles: Modelling Strategies in a Multiplicative Ontology. 121-134 BibTeX

Özgür L. Özçep: Towards Principles for Ontology Integration. 137-150 BibTeX
Chiara Ghidini, Luciano Serafini, Sergio Tessaris: Complexity of Reasoning With Expressive Ontology Mappings. 151-163 BibTeX
Sebastian Wandelt, Ralf Möller: Island Reasoning for [Ascr ][Lscr ][Cscr ][Hscr ][Iscr ] Ontologies. 164-177 BibTeX

Mariano Fernández-López, Asunción Gómez-Pérez, María del Carmen Suárez-Figueroa: Selecting and Customizing a Mereology Ontology for its Reuse in a Pharmaceutical Product Ontology. 181-194 BibTeX
Colin R. Batchelor: An Upper-Level Ontology for Chemistry. 195-207 BibTeX
Boyan Brodaric, Femke Reitsma, Yi Qiang: SKIing with DOLCE: toward an e-Science Knowledge Infrastructure. 208-219 BibTeX

Haythem O. Ismail: On the Syntax and Semantics of Effect Axioms. 223-236 BibTeX
Werner Ceusters, Maria Capolupo, Georges De Moor, Jos Devlies: Introducing Realist Ontology for the Representation of Adverse Events. 237-250 BibTeX

Silvia Gaio: Granular Models for Vague Predicates. 253-265 BibTeX
Joana Hois, Oliver Kutz: Counterparts in Language and Space - Similarity and [Sscr ]-Connection. 266-279 BibTeX
Brandon Bennett, David Mallenby, Allan Third: An Ontology for Grounding Vague Geographic Terms. 280-293 BibTeX

Gaihua Fu, Anthony G. Cohn: Utility Ontology Development with Formal Concept Analysis. 297-310 BibTeX
Rokia Bendaoud, Amedeo Napoli, Yannick Toussaint: A proposal for an Interactive Ontology Design Process based on Formal Concept Analysis. 311-323 BibTeX