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OBML 2011
The series “Ontologies in Biomedicine and Life Sciences” (OBML workshop) was initiated by the workgroup for OBML of the German Society for Computer Science in 2009. The OBML aims to bring together scientists who are working in this area to exchange ideas and discuss new results, to start collaborations and to initiate new projects. The OBML workshop is held once annually and deals with all fundamental aspects of biomedical ontologies as well as additional “hot” topics.
Submissions are requested especially for the following topics:- Ontologies and terminologies in biology, medicine, and clinical research
- Ontologies for knowledge representation, methods of reasoning, integration and interoperability of ontologies
- Methods and tools for the construction and management of ontologies
- Applications of the Semantic Web in biomedicine and the life sciences
The focus of the OBML 2011 is Phenotype ontologies in medicine and biomedical research
Ontology between Philosophy and Computer Science
Organizers- Heinrich Herre, Universität Leipzig
- Roberto Poli, University of Trento
This symposium is devoted to the role of ontology as a bridge between philosophy and knowledge engineering. These days, ontology exhibits two main directions: the traditional philosophical understanding of ontology and a new computer-based understanding of ontology which is related to knowledge engineering. There are scholars from both fields contending that ontology in knowledge engineering and ontology in philosophy are two completely different disciplines. We shall try to show in this workshop that – despite their different languages and different points of departure – ontologies in knowledge engineering (let us say: ontology as technology) and ontology in philosophy (let us say: ontology as categorial analysis) have numerous problems in common. And for this reason, engineers and philosophers must devise ways to talk to each other.