Workshop
Aspects of Mereotopology and Granularity in Bioontologies

Department of Medical Informatics, University of Freiburg (Germany)
Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science, Saarland University (Germany)
EU Network of Excellence Semantic Interoperability and Data Mining in Biomedicine (NoE 507505)

Freiburg , January 21-22 2005

FRIDAY, Jan 21, 2005

17:00 - 17:15 Introduction
   
TOPIC 1

Parts, Location, Inclusion in Biological Structures
   
17:15 - 18:00 Barry Smith
Relations in biological ontologies
18:00 - 18:45 Stefan Schulz
Criteria for distinguishing parthood from spatial inclusion in biological objects
18:45 - 19:30

Maureen Donnelly
A formal theory of parthood and location relations among anatomical classes
   
20:00  Dinner

SATURDAY, Jan 22, 2005

09:00 - 09:45 Thomas Bittner
How formal ontology can guide the search for an appropriate description-logic-based computational ontology: parthood and containment - a case study
   
09:45 - 10:45 Coffee Break
   
Topic 2 Biological Boundaries and Granularity
   
10:45 - 11:30 Martin Boeker
On spatial anatomy limits
11:30 - 12:15 Stefan Schulz
Anatomical boundaries and immaterial objects
   
12:15 - 13:15 Lunch
   
13:30 - 14:15 Daniel Novotny
Some Issues in Granularity
   
TOPIC 3 Mereology of Occurrents
   
14:15 - 15:00 Boris Hennig
Part of processes
   
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
   
15:30 - 17:00 Wrap up
Planning of further actions
   
 

Meeting minutes