2nd Summer School on Ontological Analysis (pre-event)
The IAOA is happy to announce the Second Interdisciplinary Summer School on Ontological Analysis, which will take place at Vitória, ES, Brazil on September 15-19 (the week before FOIS 2014 in Rio de Janeiro) as a full immersion experience in ontology.
The emphasis of the 2nd Summer School is on ontological analysis and the goal is to show how the different disciplines interact and communicate to answer a variety of problems. The school is open to students, to researchers and to practitioners and is organized to foster cross-disciplinary interaction.
The following courses and invited talks are confirmed so far:
Vitória is a beautiful tropical island connected to Rio via several flights (between 40-50 minutes flying time).
The following courses and invited talks are confirmed so far:
- Applied Ontology and Conceptual Modeling: Nicola Guarino (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, Italy)
- Ontology Engineering in Organizations: Michael Uschold (Semantic Arts, Inc., USA)
- Formal Ontology: Kit Fine (New York University, USA)
- Logics and Knowledge Representation: Renata Wasserman (IME, USP, Brazil)
- Ontologies and Linguistics: Nicholas Asher (CNRS, Laboratoire IRIT, France)
- Process Ontologies: Michael Grüninger (University of Toronto, Canada)
- An Introduction to Applied Ontology: Giancarlo Guizzardi (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil)
Vitória is a beautiful tropical island connected to Rio via several flights (between 40-50 minutes flying time).