GFO-Bio: A biological core ontology

GFO-Bio: A biological core ontology

The rapid increase in the number and use of biological ontologies necessitates developing systems for their integration. In this paper we present a core ontology for biology, and outline its application for integrating biological domain ontologies. Our ontology rests on a foundational ontology, which offers higher-order categories and a theory of levels of reality. The core ontology is implemen...

GFO - Bio

The rapid increase in the number and use of biological ontologies necessitates developing systems for their integration. In this paper we present a core ontology for biology, and outline its application for integrating biological domain ontologies. Our ontology rests on a foundational ontology, which offers higher-order categories and a theory of levels of reality. The core ontology is implemen...

Ontology of Time in GFO

Time, events, changes and processes play a major role in conceptual modeling, and in information systems and computer science altogether. Accordingly, the representation of time structures and reasoning about temporal data and knowledge are important theoretical and practical research areas. We assume that a formal representation of temporal knowledge must use as a framework some toplevel ontol...

General Formal Ontology (gfo) a Foundational Ontology for Conceptual Modelling

Towards an Ontology of Space for GFO

Space and time are basic categories of any top-level ontology. They account for fundamental assumptions of the modes of existence of those individuals that are said to be in space and time. The present paper is devoted to GFO-Space, the ontology of space in the General Formal Ontology (GFO). This ontology is introduced by a set of axioms formalized in first-order logic and further elucidated by...