Within the next decades, robots will need to be able to execute a large variety of tasks
autonomously in a large variety of environments. To relax the resulting programming effort, a …

The main objective of this thesis is to contribute to the theory of Conceptual Modeling by
proposing ontological foundations for structural conceptual models. Conceptual Modeling is …

Since 2002 we have been testing and refining a methodology for ontology development that
is now being used by multiple groups of researchers in different life science domains. Gary …

This text sets out a series of approaches to the analysis and synthesis of the World Wide
Web, and other web-like information structures. A comprehensive set of research questions …

The analytical philosophy of the last hundred years has been heavily influenced by a
doctrine to the effect that the key to the correct understanding of reality is captured …

We propose a novel ontological analysis of relations and relationships based on a re-
visitation of a classic problem in the practice of knowledge representation and conceptual …

The material below represents an introduction to ontology, information ontology and
ontology design. This introduction is based on the realist approach to ontology and on the …

This paper presents an axiomatic formalization of a theory of top-level relations between
three categories of entities: individuals, universals, and collections. We deal with a variety of …

The goal of referent tracking is to create an ever-growing pool of data relating to the entities
existing in concrete spatiotemporal reality. In the context of Electronic Healthcare Records …

In a series of papers over a period of several years Barry Smith and Werner Ceusters have
offered a number of cogent criticisms of historical approaches to creating, maintaining, and …