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The goal of this set of meetings is:
The goal of this set of meetings is:  


:1. to identify ways in which we and our Toronto ontologist colleagues can learn from each other  
:1. to identify ways in which we and our Toronto ontologist colleagues can learn from each other  
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:2. to explore potential avenues of collaboration. The outline program below is still in draft form.  
:2. to explore potential avenues of collaboration. The outline program below is still in draft form.  


We have organized three sessions:
A news item pertaining to this first meeting in the series can be found [https://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/News_item here].


:'''10:00 - 11:30''': Morning session in the Department of Biomedical Informatics, 77 Goodell Street, Buffalo, NY 14203 (= Downtown Buffalo). This will include short talks on the biomedical ontology work in UB, together with general presentations of the approaches to ontology of the two groups. Will include also a presentation of referent tracking.
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:'''12:15-1:00''' Lunch session (bring your own food) in 141 Park Hall on the North Campus. This is for informal exchanges of ideas, including discussions of future possibilities of collaboration.)
'''10:00 - 11:30''': Morning session in the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI), 77 Goodell Street, Buffalo, NY 14203 (= Downtown Buffalo). [[Driving and parking directions]]
:10:00 Peter Elkin, Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics: '''Welcome'''
::Barry Smith: '''[https://buffalo.box.com/s/jd84vciu48p8flk3wddmqj68jom2r4k1 Buffalo approach to ontology]'''
::Werner Ceusters: '''[https://buffalo.box.com/s/cqllxqayca5iizm4mrluuizce9ney3ly Buffalo approach to referent tracking]'''
::Alex Diehl: '''[https://buffalo.box.com/s/r4zbexuby7yygd4qu8t1b3ohvngb8biq Buffalo approach to biomedical ontology]'''
:10:20 Mark Fox: '''[https://buffalo.box.com/s/ruj2xr563qvkz4yaly5y2z5m20ya7t26 Toronto approaches]'''
:10:40 Discussion
:11:00 Short talks on UB biomedical ontology projects:
::11:00 [https://buffalo.box.com/s/b7t9la1kqfoxjzx1fxlabrehbjvi5rd8 Anuwat Pengput]
::11:05 [https://buffalo.box.com/s/y6gvpzg157at6bloadmfpjyb259igp3v Lauren Wishnie]
::11:10 [https://buffalo.box.com/s/x69chpk33qb2zrg96cifc45lfztu7g9s Alexander Bartnik]
::11:15 Discussion
:11:30 Close of morning session


:'''1:00 - 3:30''': Formal session in 141 Park Hall. This will include short talks on specific ontologies and use-cases we are developing followed by an extensive period for discussion. Topics will include Smart Cities, Services, Industrial Ontologies, Enterprise Ontologies. (A detailed list will follow.)
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More details will be supplied in due course. For questions please contact BS at ifomis@gmail.com.
'''12:15-1:00''' Lunch session (bring your own food) in 141 Park Hall on the North Campus. This is for informal exchanges of ideas, including discussions of future possibilities of collaboration.
 
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'''1:00 - 3:30''': Formal session in 141 Park Hall, UB North Campus
:1:00 Li Yin: '''UB work on Smart Cities'''
::[https://buffalo.box.com/s/3pghk6zgt358eluz7plq9lemeufcjw3d Building Walkable Communities]
::[https://buffalo.box.com/s/imjixp90k1ncru4rxyp9bor0v4h9efg1 Making space: using AI to examine the interactions between the physical, relational and cyber spaces of human activities]
 
:1:25 Mark Fox: '''[https://buffalo.box.com/s/6pii787t9jr4d0c5gh3bxhh7spv3xmvy City Data Standards]''' (ISO-5087, ISO-21972)
 
:1:50 Barry Smith: '''[https://buffalo.box.com/s/lbmcg5wj0ipvzeb26vghpzbjpux3imia A BFO-based approach to services]''', defined in terms of (1) the creation of patterns, and (2) repair, restoration and disposal of patterned entities
 
:2:00 Bart Gajderowicz: '''The Toronto approach to services''', defined in
:::Common Impact Data Standard Part 1: [https://buffalo.box.com/s/6v49yixo5qq58t1bo8bxnxj25kwy9vfd Services]
:::Common Impact Data Standard Part 2: [https://buffalo.box.com/s/exmoni1t8xt2rjupnvsbxkdi94x7qtek Client and community characteristics, interoperable service coding scheme, service-related taxonomies]
:2:20 Daniela Rosu
:::Common Impact Data Standard Part 3:[https://buffalo.box.com/s/xz1paixldllbl0oeam8oblj85qt8gh03 Client and community needs, need satisfiers, matching services and clients]
 
:2:30 Barry Smith: '''[https://www.industrialontologies.org/ Industrial Ontologies Foundry]''' '''[https://buffalo.box.com/s/902h6q00uoua9cpzctq92aqmdqfcu2k7 Slides]'''
 
:2:40 Megan Katsumi: '''[https://buffalo.box.com/s/6glq8c4m2pxsdprgqqcmmzpsqbibw2oa Asset management: modelling of physical systems, data records, and manifestations]'''
:3:00 Closing discussion
 
==Ontology group biosketches==
 
See [https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/ncor/people/ here] and [https://archplan.buffalo.edu/People/faculty.host.html/content/shared/ap/students-faculty-alumni/faculty/Yin.detail.html]
 
==Toronto group biosketches==
 
'''Professor Mark S. Fox'''
 
Mark S. Fox is the Distinguished Professor of Urban Systems Engineering at the University of Toronto. He is a Professor of Industrial Engineering and Computer Science, Director of the Urban Data Centre in the University of Toronto’s School of Cities, founding director of the Centre for Social Services Engineering, and head of the Enterprise Integration Laboratory. He is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He is the editor of the ISO/IEC 5087 series of city data model standards and an author of the Common Impact Data Standard.
 
'''Dr Bart Gajderowicz'''
 
Bart Gajderowicz completed his PhD at the University of Toronto, where he was the Social Service Simulation project director at the Centre for Social Services Engineering research group. His work focused on developing the Ontology for Social Service Needs (OSSN), and the simulation of service usage and client needs in the "Housing First" intervention program. His current work focuses on the development and adoption of the Common Impact Data Standard (CIDS) for measuring the impact of smart city services. This work incorporates the development of service-focused ontologies, data standards, AI language models, and knowledge extraction methods.
 
'''Dr Megan Katsumi'''
 
Megan Katsumi received her PhD from the University of Toronto, where her research at the Semantic Technologies Laboratory focused on foundations for ontology development. Megan completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the University of Toronto Transportation Research Institute (UTTRI) where she contributed to the development of a suite of ontologies for transportation planning to support the iCity-ORF project. Her current research activities are focused on the use of ontologies in asset management and the development of ontology-based standards.
 
'''Dr Daniela Rosu'''
 
Daniela Rosu received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, where her research at the IBM Life Sciences Discovery Center focused on biomedical ontologies. As a postdoctoral fellow, she continued working on ontologies for healthcare and developed a formal scheme for representing clinical practice guidelines and supporting matching patients to medical procedures. She continues her work on decision support systems at the Centre for Social Services Engineering, where her research focuses on modelling and predicting needs, formalizing and analyzing services and matching them to needs,  as well as data-driven inference of insights to inform the optimization of processes, policies and services at agency and community level.

Latest revision as of 02:44, 2 December 2022

The goal of this set of meetings is:

1. to identify ways in which we and our Toronto ontologist colleagues can learn from each other
2. to explore potential avenues of collaboration. The outline program below is still in draft form.

A news item pertaining to this first meeting in the series can be found here.


10:00 - 11:30: Morning session in the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI), 77 Goodell Street, Buffalo, NY 14203 (= Downtown Buffalo). Driving and parking directions

10:00 Peter Elkin, Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics: Welcome
Barry Smith: Buffalo approach to ontology
Werner Ceusters: Buffalo approach to referent tracking
Alex Diehl: Buffalo approach to biomedical ontology
10:20 Mark Fox: Toronto approaches
10:40 Discussion
11:00 Short talks on UB biomedical ontology projects:
11:00 Anuwat Pengput
11:05 Lauren Wishnie
11:10 Alexander Bartnik
11:15 Discussion
11:30 Close of morning session

12:15-1:00 Lunch session (bring your own food) in 141 Park Hall on the North Campus. This is for informal exchanges of ideas, including discussions of future possibilities of collaboration.


1:00 - 3:30: Formal session in 141 Park Hall, UB North Campus

1:00 Li Yin: UB work on Smart Cities
Building Walkable Communities
Making space: using AI to examine the interactions between the physical, relational and cyber spaces of human activities
1:25 Mark Fox: City Data Standards (ISO-5087, ISO-21972)
1:50 Barry Smith: A BFO-based approach to services, defined in terms of (1) the creation of patterns, and (2) repair, restoration and disposal of patterned entities
2:00 Bart Gajderowicz: The Toronto approach to services, defined in
Common Impact Data Standard Part 1: Services
Common Impact Data Standard Part 2: Client and community characteristics, interoperable service coding scheme, service-related taxonomies
2:20 Daniela Rosu
Common Impact Data Standard Part 3:Client and community needs, need satisfiers, matching services and clients
2:30 Barry Smith: Industrial Ontologies Foundry Slides
2:40 Megan Katsumi: Asset management: modelling of physical systems, data records, and manifestations
3:00 Closing discussion

Ontology group biosketches

See here and [1]

Toronto group biosketches

Professor Mark S. Fox

Mark S. Fox is the Distinguished Professor of Urban Systems Engineering at the University of Toronto. He is a Professor of Industrial Engineering and Computer Science, Director of the Urban Data Centre in the University of Toronto’s School of Cities, founding director of the Centre for Social Services Engineering, and head of the Enterprise Integration Laboratory. He is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He is the editor of the ISO/IEC 5087 series of city data model standards and an author of the Common Impact Data Standard.

Dr Bart Gajderowicz

Bart Gajderowicz completed his PhD at the University of Toronto, where he was the Social Service Simulation project director at the Centre for Social Services Engineering research group. His work focused on developing the Ontology for Social Service Needs (OSSN), and the simulation of service usage and client needs in the "Housing First" intervention program. His current work focuses on the development and adoption of the Common Impact Data Standard (CIDS) for measuring the impact of smart city services. This work incorporates the development of service-focused ontologies, data standards, AI language models, and knowledge extraction methods.

Dr Megan Katsumi

Megan Katsumi received her PhD from the University of Toronto, where her research at the Semantic Technologies Laboratory focused on foundations for ontology development. Megan completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the University of Toronto Transportation Research Institute (UTTRI) where she contributed to the development of a suite of ontologies for transportation planning to support the iCity-ORF project. Her current research activities are focused on the use of ontologies in asset management and the development of ontology-based standards.

Dr Daniela Rosu

Daniela Rosu received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, where her research at the IBM Life Sciences Discovery Center focused on biomedical ontologies. As a postdoctoral fellow, she continued working on ontologies for healthcare and developed a formal scheme for representing clinical practice guidelines and supporting matching patients to medical procedures. She continues her work on decision support systems at the Centre for Social Services Engineering, where her research focuses on modelling and predicting needs, formalizing and analyzing services and matching them to needs, as well as data-driven inference of insights to inform the optimization of processes, policies and services at agency and community level.