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ONTOLOGY OF SOCIAL INTERACTION

with a cycle of lectures by Barry Smith on

Ontology of Law, Economics and Human Interaction

9-11th December 2002
Laboratorio di Ontologia Applicata, ISTC-CNR
Polo Tecnologico, Via Solteri 38, Trento

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Program:

Monday, December 9th
10.30
Extending Ontology to Behaviour in Communities of Agents
Robert M. Colomb
School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
The University of Queensland
(on sabbatical at LADSEB-CNR)
www.itee.uq.edu.au/~colomb

14.30
A Social Perspective for Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
Cristiano Castelfranchi
Director of the ISTC-CNR

15.15
Break
15.30
How to Buy a Beer: The Invisible Ontology of Social Reality
Barry Smith
Dept. of Philosophy, University of New York at Buffalo
and Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science (IFOMIS), Leipzig
www.ifomis.de

17.00
Discussion

Tuesday, December 10th

9.30
How to Make a Promise: Law, Trust and the Ontology of Human Interaction
Barry Smith
11.30
Discussion
14.30
How to Rent a Car (and Why You Can't Rent a Person): The Ontology of Production and Consumption
Barry Smith
16.00
Discussion

Wednesday, December 11th

9.30
How to Organize Your Life: From Microsocieties to Global Social Organizations
Barry Smith
11.30
General Discussion
14.30
Presentation of the ISTC-CNR Laboratory for Applied Ontology