WORKSHOP ON:

DESCRIPTION LOGICS

AND REASONING ABOUT PATIENT DATA

Organized by the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science, Saarland University

 

under the auspices of the EU FP6 Network of Excellence in Semantic Interoperability and Data Mining in Biomedicine

 

also sponsored by the AMIA Working Group on Formal Biomedical Knowledge Representation

 

Saarbrücken, 22–23 November 2004

 

 

The central focus of this meeting is SNOMED Clinical Terms, which has recently been selected as the terminology platform for ambitious programmes directed towards unification of healthcare data in both the United States and the United Kingdom. What sorts of automatic reasoning are supported by Description Logic-based terminologies such as SNOMED-CT? What, in principle, is the potential of Description Logic, especially when it comes to reasoning about instances and time?

 

PROGRAM

 

Monday 22 November

 

12:45           Barry Smith (Buffalo/Saarbrücken): Welcoming Remarks

13:00           Alan Rector (Manchester):

What Can and What Cannot Be Done with Description Logics

14:00           Coffee

14:30           Kent Spackman (Oregon Health and Science University):

The Description Logic and Concept Model of SNOMED CT

15:30           Working Session on SNOMED

 

Tuesday 23 November

 

9:30             Franz Baader (Dresden):

A Description Logics Voyage: From Inexpressive to Expressive Languages and Back

          10:30           Coffee

          11:00           Working Session on Reasoning with Patient Data

12:30           Lunch

14:00           Carsten Lutz (Dresden)

Reasoning about Time with Description Logics

          15:00           Working Session on Reasoning about Time and Instances

         

Other participants will include:

 

Hans åhlfeldt (Linköpping)

Bill Andersen (Ontology Works, Baltimore)

Rainer Beck (Freiburg)

Thomas Bittner (Saarbrücken)

Matrin Böker (Freiburg)

Christel Le Bozec (Paris)

Sebastian Brandt (Dresden)

Werner Ceusters (Saarbrücken)

Ronald Cornet (Amsterdam)

Christoffel Dhaen (Ghent)

Maureen Donnelly (Saarbrücken)

John Eisner (Buffalo)

Stefan Gräber (Homburg)

Udo Hahn (Jena)

Josef Ingenerf (Lübeck)

Marie-Christine Jaulent (Paris)

Ingvar Johansson (Saarbrücken)

Nicolette de Keizer (Amsterdam)

Gunnar Klein (Stockholm)

Kornel Marko (Freiburg)

Dirk Marwede (Leipzig)

Chris Menzel (Saarbücken and College Station, Texas)

Fabian Neuhaus (Saarbrücken)

Mikael Nyström (Linköpping)

Igor Papakin (Leipzig)

Håkan Petersson (Linköpping)

Jeremy Rogers (Manchester)

Ulrike Sattler (Manchester)

Stefan Schulz (Freiburg)

Hans Rudolf Straub (Zürich)

Erik Sundvall (Linköpping)

Jostein Ven (Trondheim)

 

The workshop will take place in Saarbrücken.

It will begin at lunchtime on Monday and conclude with dinner on the next day.

For further details please contact the organizer Barry Smith