To facilitate communication and the exchange of information between patients, nurses, lab technicians, health insurers, physicians, policy makers, and existing knowledge-based systems, a set of shared standard terminologies and controlled vocabularies are necessary. In modern health information management systems, these vocabularies are defined within formal representations called ontologies, w...

We have designed and implemented a Context-aware ONTOlogical (C-ONTO) schema for pervasive computing environments in hospitals. The schema contains semantics for situation awareness, which has been drawn from sensor-derived information about patients, called local contexts; changes to these contexts, and users involved in, and actions taken as a result of, these context changes. We have modelle...

This is a general overview document setting out the basics of ontology design for Project I1-[OntoSpace] and the SFB. First, a discussion of the major design parameters is given in order to familiarize SFB-members with the state of ontological engineering and the issues involved. We then select several key ontologies for discussion along the lines of the parameters introduced. We conclude by se...

A programmable logic controller (PC) carries out a control algorithm under violations of the ontological assumptions (VOA) when the plant does not meet one or more unstated but essential assumptions used in the design of the control algorithm. This paper presents a recovery technique based on the theory of Fuzzy State Fuzzy Output Finite State Machines (FSFO-FSM). The appeal of this approach is...

Abstract: The paper explores the meaning and fate of category critique within so-called “ontological” or “speculative turn”. First, article addresses question knowing what could give consistency to very concept a contemporary ontological turn, in order present, second moment, tension that, since Kant, constitutes relationship between ontology. Finally, - particularly work Quentin Meillassoux po...

‘Structural realism’ is a buzzword in the scientific realism debate. Various positions with diverse motivations fall under this label. A much advertised distinction is between epistemic and ontological forms of structuralism. This paper scrutinizes the alleged dichotomy between these two ‘alternatives’, and criticises the considerations that have been taken to motivate the ontic variety over th...

The following is my idea of the topic for the panel: By an "ontology" for actions and change, I mean a set of assumptions about the character of the world that one is reasoning about. For example, the choice of discrete vs continuous time, the choice to allow or not to allow for causation relations between events, and the choice to allow or not to allow for nondeterminism, are examples of such ...

Since their inception in the 1980s, complexity sciences have been described as a revolutionary new domain of research. By describing some practices and assumptions its representatives, present article shows that this field is an association subdisciplines laying on existing disciplinary footholds. The general question guiding us here is: On what basis do scientists consider inquiry methods resu...

In the DOGMA approach to ontology engineering, the construction of an ontology starts from a “Lexon Base”, a possibly very large and un-interpreted base of plausible elementary fact types called lexons. Lexons mined from various linguistic sources such as schemas, texts or domain experts are used to create ontological commitments by selecting or reusing a meaningful set of lexons and together w...