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Meetings and Workshops

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2021​

Joint meeting of NCOR and NCOR Brazil :Monday, November 15 at 4:00pm :focusing primarily on commercial ontology

:Schedule ::16:00 Barry Smith: Recent developments in Buffalo ontology ::16:15 Mauricio Almeida: Examples for the Ontology of Commercial Exchange ::16:30 Eric Merrell: Common Core Conformant Definitions for an Ontology of Commerical Exchange ::16:45 Gloria Sanso: Defining 'Act of Payment' ::17:00 Heliana Mello: Can NLP support ontology development -- with examples from commerce

** AI and the Ontology of Complex Systems :organized by the Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto :Tuesday November 23, 2021, 10:00am - 12:00pm** :Details here

'''On the Legg-Hutter Definition of 'Universal Intelligence'**, Buffalo, NY, March 12, 2021

Classifying Philosophy: Problems and Strategies, March 31, 2021

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2017​

:The International Association of Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) is announcing the 2017 Summer Institute on Upper Ontologies
:Participants from all sectors of applied ontology are invited to interact from August 8 to 11, in Toronto, Canada. As always, the Summer Institute will challenge the state of the art through lively discussions and hands-on problem solving rather than lengthy presentations.

2016​

Organized jointly with the UB Center for Multisource Information Fusion

June 10, 2016 :2pm Discussion on establishing an Industry Ontology Foundry, with talks by Barry Smith and Hedi Karay :3pm Presentation by Boran Brodaric on Water Feature Ontology and Timeless Wholes

May 19-20, 2016 Ontological Approaches to Sensor Data Analysis, Amherst, NY

March 21, 2016, 141 Park Hall, Buffalo :Fabian Neuhaus talk on DOL: The Distributed Ontology Language

February 17-19, 2016 Gainesville, FL :Workshop on BFO and the Ontology of Social Entities**

Feb 2 and all Tuesdays until April 19 1-3:50pm, 141 Park Hall, Buffalo :A series of seminars on various ontology-related topics, listed here.

Feb. 1, 2016, 567 Capen Hall, Buffalo Meeting on various ontology topics, including: :Non-Coding RNA Ontology (Alan Ruttenberg) :Ontology for Manufacturing (Francesco Furini) :*We propose an ontology focused on the representation of composite materials in general and what are called 'Functionally Graded Materials' (FGM) in particular. The scope of the ontology is to provide information about the components of such materials, the manufacturing processes involved in creating such materials, and different sorts of applications in dentistry and other fields. The ontology is developed using Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) and parts of of Ontology for Biomedical Investigation (OBI). :Plant Life Cycle Ontology (Barry Smith)

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2011​

  • [Workshop on Ontology Driven Implementation of Semantic Services for the Enterprise Environment: ODISSEE, Washington DC, April 12-13, 2011

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