Das vorliegende Buch ist eine überarbeitete Fassung meiner Habilitationsschrift mit dem
Titel „Analytische Sozialontologie “, die im 2011 von der Philosophischen Fakultät der …

The special composition question (SCQ), which asks under which conditions objects
compose a further object, establishes a central debate in modern metaphysics. Recent …

Water features such as rivers, clouds, and aquifers are primarily understood from sensor
measurements. Ontologies for the hydro domain play a key role in describing sensor …

Forests, cars and orchestras are very different ontological entities, and yet very similar in
some aspects. The relationships they have with the elements they are composed of is often …

The concept of a mechanism has become a standard proposal for explanations in biology. It
has been claimed that mechanistic explanations are appropriate for systems biology …

Background The need for detailed description and modeling of cells drives the continuous
generation of large and diverse datasets. Unfortunately, there exists no systematic and …

Biological entities are embedded in cascades of mereological systems, both on the level of
individuals and on the level of classes. But there are, in fact, numerous borderline cases, in …

We propose a framework for the representation of medical risks in the context of the OBO
Foundry using the Web Ontology Language (OWL). The framework is developed for the use …

Ontology engineering is mainly done by domain experts who are specialists in their domain
but have, if at all, limited knowledge in logics, computer science, or analytic philosophy. The …

Background Biomedical ontologies aim at providing the most exhaustive and rigorous
representation of reality as described by biomedical sciences. A large part of medical …