10^th European Conference on Knowledge Management

ONLY ON-SITE REGISTRATION AVAILABLE: 180 euros (social dinner is included)

 

 

9.00 – 9.30             Registration

 

9.30 – 9.45           Welcome by Organising Committee

 

09.45 – 10.30         Invited talk & discussion

 

Guido Vetere, IBM (Center for Advanced Studies, Rome)

From Data to Knowledge: the role of Formal Ontology

 

10.30 – 11.00         COFFEE BREAK

11.00 – 11.30         Hamdani Hanêne and Gargouri Faiez.

Towards an approach for evolving information systems' ontologies   

 

 

 

11.30 – 12.00         Pieter Vermaas.

Parts, Compositions and Decompositions of Functions in Engineering Ontologies   

 

12.00 – 12.30        Joana Hois, Mehul Bhatt and Oliver Kutz.

Modular Ontologies for Architectural Design   

 

 

12.30 – 13              Alessandra Esposito, Luciano Tarricone, Laura Vallone and Marco Zappatore.

Towards An Ontology Infrastructure for Electromagnetics   

 

 

13.00 – 14.30         LUNCH BREAK

 

 

14.30 – 15.00         Pawel Garbacz, Piotr Kulicki, Marek Lechniak and Robert Trypuz.

 Do you still want to vote for your favourite  politician? Ask Ontobella!  

 

 

15.00 – 15.30         Hadj Tayeb Sabria and Noureddine Myriam.

Ontological representation for Algerian enterprise modeling   

 

 

15.30 – 16.00         Stefano Borgo, Giandomenico Pozza

Disentangling Knowledge Objects   

 

16.00 – 16. 30        COFFEE BREAK

 

16.30 – 17.00         Pierre Grenon and David de Francisco.

Ontology-strength Industry Standards: The Case of the Telecommunication Domain

 

17.00 – 17.30         Michael Gruninger and Arnaud Delaval.

A First-Order Cutting Process Ontology for Sheet Metal Parts   

 

17.30 – 17.45                         CONCLUSION

 

 

20.00                       SOCIAL DINNER (restaurant in the centre of Vicenza – info provided at the workshop)

 

 

 

CONFERENCE AIMS

 

FOMI is an international forum where academic researchers and industrial practitioners meet to analyze and discuss application issues related to methods, theories, tools and applications based on formal ontologies. There is today wide agreement that knowledge modeling and the semantic dimension of information plays an increasingly central role in networkedeconomy: semantic-based applications aim to provide a framework for information and knowledge sharing, reliable information exchange, meaning negotiation and coordination between distinct organizations or among members of the same organization.

 

Often, theoretical ideas seem very promising but their actual implementation brings up unexpected problems and issues. The FOMI 09 Workshop aims to collect useful experiences and lessons learned by the presentation of (1) experienced problems in ontology application, (2) new insights on known problematic issues, (3) new results and observations in ontology implementation, (4) lessons learned on the best way to apply ontological methodologies to real situations.

 

FOMI 09 will facilitate open discussion and experience sharing. Very similar problems arise in disparate ontology applications and an open discussion helps to highlight commonalities and to spread ideas for possible solutions. For this reason, FOMI welcomes researchers and practitioners that embrace this perspective without restrictions on the domain they deal with: business, medicine, engineering, finance, law, biology, geography, electronics, etc.

 

 

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

 

Chair: Roberta Ferrario, Alessandro Oltramari – Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Trento – Italy.

 

Local Chair: Ettore Bolisani, Department of Management and Engineering (University of Padua), Vicenza – Italy; Stefano Borgo, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Trento – Italy.

 

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

 

Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University); Kavi Mahesh (Infosys Technologies Ltd., and PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India); Fred Freitas (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Brazil); Kyril Simov (Sirma Labs, Sofia, Bulgary); Michael Gruninger (University of Toronto); Derek Sleeman (University of Aberdeen);Matteo Cristani (University of Verona, Italy); Roberta Cuel (University of Trento, Italy); Gilles Kassel (LaRIA-CNRS and Jules Verne University of Picardie, Amiens)

 

 

For any question, contact fomi2009@loa-cnr.it