1st Workshop on Foundational Ontology

The first FOUST 2017 workshop, organised by Stefano Borgo (Trento) and Oliver Kutz (Bolzano) will be held on February 27 and 28, 2017, at the KRDB Research Center of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.

The FOUST 2017 workshop hosted world-leading ontologists to discuss the motivations for and relationships between the foundational ontologies BFO, DOLCE, GFO, GUM, UFO, and YAMATO.

Invited participants include:

John Bateman, Antony Galton, Nicola Guarino, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Heinrich Herre, Frank Loebe, Claudio Masolo, Riichiro Mizoguchi, Fabian Neuhaus, Joao Nicola, and Barry Smith.

Program

Date: February 27-28, 2017

Location: Seminar Room, POS Building, UNIBZ

Day 1: February 27

09:45 – 10:00 Introduction to FOUST – The Foundational Stance
(Stefano Borgo & Oliver Kutz)

10:00 – 11:00 Ontology of Time and Process (Antony Galton)

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11:00 – 11:45 coffee break
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11:45 – 12:15 GFO Ontology (Frank Loebe)
12:15 – 12:45 YAMATO Ontology (Riichiro Mizoguchi)

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12:45 – 14:30 lunch
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14:30 – 15:00 DOLCE Ontology (Stefano Borgo)
15:00 – 15:15 UFO Ontology (Joao Nicola & Giancarlo Guizzardi)
15:15 – 15:30 Integrating UFO and DOLCE (Nicola Guarino)

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15:30 – 16:15 coffee break
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16:15 – 16:45 GUM Ontology (John Bateman)
16:45 – 17:15 BFO Ontology (Barry Smith & Fabian Neuhaus)

17:30 – 18:30 Discussion

Day 2: February 28

All day: Preparation of the FOUST publication and digital library.

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Organization

Workshop organizers

• Stefano Borgo – Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy
• Oliver Kutz – Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy