IAOA Summer Institute 2017 - Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Tuesday, August 8, 2017-Friday, August 11, 2017
9:00am-5:00pm

Bahen Centre, Room 4164
40 St. George Street

REGISTER AND PAY ONLINE.

Fee: $500 CAD

Please note the room change.

Within the Applied Ontology community, upper ontologies are widely recognized as tools to support the tasks of ontology design and semantic integration. At the first Ontology Summit in 2006, the designers of several prominent upper ontologies were joined by key ontology technology participants, with the purpose of finding a means to relate the different ontologies to each other. In the decade since that meeting, the development and application of upper ontologies has continued, yet many challenges remain.

The 2017 IAOA Summer Institute will explore the following topics:

What are the foundational choices and the practical motivations of present upper ontologies?
What is the range of concepts that should be covered in an upper ontology?
What are the relationships among upper ontologies?
How do we evaluate upper ontologies?
Using upper ontologies for semantic integration
Using upper ontologies for ontology design

Details about the Summer Institute can be found at: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/SummerInstitute2017

Traditional Land Acknowledgement

We wish to acknowledge this land on which the University of Toronto operates. For thousands of years it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.