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The International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) is happy to announce ISAO 2016 — Third Interdisciplinary School on Applied Ontology, which will take place in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy between June 27 and July 1, 2016 (the week before FOIS 2016 held in Annecy, France between July 6th-9th, 2016).
World-class experts in different disciplines (Philosophy, Knowledge Representation, Logics, Conceptual Modeling and Ontology Engineering) will meet for a week with students, researchers and practitioners and present courses in complementary aspects of Applied Ontology.
The summer school will be a full immersion experience in ontology during which the experts will engage in open discussions with each other as well as interact with the participants.
Previous summer schools were held in Vitória, Brazil
http://www.iaoa.org/isao2014/
and in Trento, Italy
http://www.iaoa.org/isao2012/
Full detail of the program can be found on this page.
The ISAO 2016 booklet can be downloaded HERE.
The following courses were held at ISAO 2016:
Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
(Reasoning over Ontologies and Conceptual Models)
Gilberto Camara, National Institute for Space Research, Brazil
(Geospatial Ontology)
Antony Galton, University of Exeter, UK
(Time and Process)
Achille C. Varzi, Columbia University, New York, USA
(Mereology)
Laure Vieu, CNRS, France
(Language and Ontology)
And additional lectures by:
Fabian Neuhaus, University of Magdeburg, Germany
(The Distributed Ontology Language DOL)
Roberta Ferrario, LOA, CNR, Trento
(The Ontological Analysis of Organizations)
Organization
International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA)
http://iaoa.org/
Research Centre on Knowledge and Data (KRDB)
Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano