2nd IAOA Summer School – Nicholas Asher – Types, Semantics and Ontology
On Thursday, Nicholas Asher started his two-part invited talk (which could also be considered a short course) on “Types, Semantics and Ontology”.
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2nd IAOA Summer School – Michael Uschold – Designing and Building Enterprise Ontologies
Michael Uschold started his course on “Designing and Building Enterprise Ontologies” as the last presenter on Tuesday, with parts 2 and 3 to take place in the next couple of days.
2nd IAOA Summer School – Nicola Guarino – Ontological Analysis and Conceptual Modeling
Nicola Guarino started his course on “Ontological Analysis and Conceptual Modeling” in the last slot on Monday. The course was divided in four parts, going on until Thursday.
2nd IAOA Summer School – Kit Fine – Formal Ontology
Kit Fine started his course on “Formal Ontology” on Monday afternoon. He said his focus would be on essence: essence as modality, essence as indexed modality and essence as constitutive modality.
2nd IAOA Summer School – Renata Wassermann – Knowledge Representation and Description Logics
Renata Wassermann started her course “Knowledge Representation and Description Logics” on Monday morning. The course started with basics on AI, Knowledge Representation and basic logics.
2nd IAOA Summer School – Giancarlo Guizzardi – An Introduction to Applied Ontology
On Monday, right after the official opening of the event, Giancarlo Guizzardi followed with the talk “An Introduction to Applied Ontology” and opened the technical program of the Summer School.
Summary of the 2nd IAOA Summer School on Ontological Analysis
This week I’m attending the Second Interdisciplinary Summer School on Ontological Analysis, taking place in Vitória, ES. As usual, in order to force myself to pay attention, I wrote quick summaries of the presentations that were given during the week. The summer school program consists of four courses (spanning through the whole week) and three… Continue Reading
Summary of the NII Shonan Meeting on Engineering Adaptive Software Systems
On September 9th through 12th I participated in the NII Shonan Meeting on Engineering Adaptive Software Systems (EASSy), organized by the Japanese National Institute of Informatics in the Shonan Village Center, in Kanagawa, Japan. The Shonan Meetings are Daghstul Seminar-like meeting of researchers on a specific theme and this is the second edition on the… Continue Reading
Summary of SEAMS 2013
On May 20th and 21st I participated in the 8th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2013), which was co-located with the 35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2013), in San Francisco, CA (USA). This year, I was really happy to have two full papers and a short paper… Continue Reading
Summary of CoopIS 2012
On September 13th and 14th I participated in the 20th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2012), in Rome, Italy. I presented a paper called “Requirements-Driven Qualitative Adaptation”, which is one of the final pieces of my PhD work in the University of Trento, Italy. As usual, I wrote quick summaries of the presentations… Continue Reading