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== Venue Information ==


==Event Date and Venue ==
'''SAIC Rosslyn, 1911 Fort Myer Dr, Arlington, VA'''


May 13 – 14, 2020
:Arlington Conference Room, fifth floor (capacity: 40 people)
:Iwo Jima Room, for speaker prep, breaks,  breakout session (capacity 8-10)


SAIC Rosslyn Office
== Timing/Set-up ==


1901 Ft. Myer Drive
Room will open at 7am the day of the conference for set-up/tech check..  


Arlington, VA 22207
== Primary Contacts ==
: Dr. Barry Smith
: email: phismith@buffalo.edu
: Carter Benson
: email: carterbe@buffalo.edu
== Program ==


==Conference Purpose==
=== June 22 ===


Conference Purpose: This conference aims (1) to identify the lessons learned from the Referent Tracking methodology, (2) to explore how these lessons might be translated to the domains of the defense and intelligence communities, (3) to identify potential benefits relating to semantic technology, and (4) to explore how these benefits can enhance OBP.
'''10:00-10:10 Introduction and Welcome'''


== Organizer and Contact==
'''10:10-11:00 Introduction to Basic Formal Ontology (BFO)'''
For information or to register contact:  
: Speaker: Barry Smith, University at Buffalo and the National Center for Ontological Research.


[https://davidglimbaugh.com David G. Limbaugh] dglimbau@buffalo.edu
'''11:10-12:00 Introduction to Referent Tracking (RT)''' ([https://buffalo.box.com/s/qe1cwyok390xj5p1noc9gcwxvfxvv0tj Slides])
: Speaker: Werner Ceusters, University at Buffalo, Division Chief of Biomedical Ontology.


== Schedule of Topics and Speakers ==
'''12:00-1:00 Break for Lunch'''


Wednesday May 13, 2020
'''1:00-1:50 Object Based Production Overview''' ([https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1alBEFt-NGz56K9o2mCqb7WQCDTkX_y6L/edit?usp=drive_web&ouid=115550975780371337331&rtpof=true Slides])
:      Speaker: Jim Tuson


'''Day One: Referent Tracking and Object Based Production
'''2:00-2:50 Introduction to Object Based Production (OBP)''' ([https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1h5lyVZprQBdyR-VxuKUizq1Yn7rf8EYj/edit?usp=drive_web&ouid=115550975780371337331&rtpof=true Slides])
'''
: Speakers: Geoff X. Davis, Celestar Corporation, Danny Holloway, Celestar Corporation, James Tuson, SAIC.
'''Part I'''


9:00am – 9:40am (40 minutes) Introduction to Basic Formal Ontology
'''3:00-3:50 OBP and RT'''
:Werner Ceusters, University at Buffalo,
:Geoff X. Davis, Celestar Corporation
:Jim Tuson, SAIC


Barry Smith, Director, National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR)
====4:00-5:15 Introduction to Defense Ontologies & OBP Applications ====
: Speaker: Forrest Hare, Knowledge Solutions.


9:40am – 10:30am (50 minutes) Using the Common Core Ontologies
=== June 23 ===


Ron Rudnicki, Senior Ontologist, CUBRC
'''9:00-9:50 PROV-O to BFO Mapping''' ([https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wWQZtkH4Ie4R7YkUVY7frTuePITGJVo4/edit#slide=id.p1 Slides])
:      Speaker: Austin Liebers, University at Buffalo


10:30am – 10:45am (15 minutes) BREAK
'''10:00-10:50 RDF Star Seminar''' ([https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WSQ068Meael6dhfuI84m7QVYnCwIGH2k/edit#slide=id.p1 Slides])
: Speaker: Forrest Hare, Knowledge Solutions.


'''Part II'''
'''11:00-11:40  Warrant in Data Collection and Data Processing''' ([https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nHPdCaeH-sAtPnUtuZA8t47FiqN-Eiep/edit?usp=drive_web&ouid=115550975780371337331&rtpof=true Slides])
: Speaker: Barry Smith, UB


10:45 – 11:15 (30 minutes) Introduction to Defense Ontologies
'''11:40-1:00 Break for Lunch'''


Forrest B. Hare, SAIC Fellow, Solutions Architect, Cyberspace Operation, SAIC
===='''1:00-TBD Keynote: Rapid Adaptive Ontology Development for Homeland Security ====
: Speaker: Ryan Riccucci, Division Chief, U.S. Customs and Border Protection.


11:15am – 12:00pm (45 minutes) Object Based Production and Living Intelligence
== Registration ==
There is no registration fee for this event. If you would like to participate, please contact Carter Benson by June 1st at the email above for further details.


Geoff X. Davis,  Program Team Lead, Analytics and Simulation, SAIC
== Security ==


12:00pm – 1:00pm LUNCH
:Due to SAIC protocols, no non-US citizens can participate in the conference in person or virtually.
:Security Badges will be given out at the door.


'''Part III'''
== Tech ==


1:00pm – 3:10pm (130 minutes) Recording Reality Using Referent Tracking
A projector and laptop will be provided. Virtual conference attendance will be available for confirmed participants.


Werner Ceusters, Division Chief, Biomedical Ontology, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo
== Refreshments ==


William Hogan, Professor, Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine, University of Florida
Lunch will be offsite.


3:10pm – 3:25pm (15 minutes) BREAK
== Parking ==
:There is a parking garage underneath SAIC Rosslyn. Parking will be validated.


'''Part IV'''
== Hotel Recommendation ==
'''Five Star Accommodation'''
:The Ritz-Carlton Georgetown, 3100 South St NW, Washington, DC 20007
'''Four Star Accommodation'''
:The Graham Georgetown, 1075 Thomas Jefferson St NW, Washington, DC 20007
:Le Meridien Arlington, 1121 19th St N, Arlington, VA 22209
:Hyatt Centric Arlington, 1325 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA 22209


3:25pm – 5:00pm (95 minutes) Referent Tracking Theory Applied to Object Based Production
David Limbaugh, Intelligence Community Postdoc, University at Buffalo
Alan Ruttenberg, Director of Clinical and Translational Data Exchange, University at Buffalo
Timothy Lebo, Cyber Operations Branch, Air Force Research Laboratory
Nicholas Del Rio, Command and Control Branch, Air Force Research Laboratory
Thursday, May 14, 2020
'''Day Two: Intelligence Community Ontology Foundry
'''
9am – 12:00pm (180 minutes)
Purpose: The goal of this session is to continue work on establishing an Intelligence Community Ontology Foundry initiative. Referent Tracking and Object Based Production assume a shared semantic foundation across the intelligence community, which allows for more detailed datasets and a higher potential for knowledge gain.
== Conference Description ==
'''Conference Purpose:''' This conference aims (1) to identify the lessons learned from the [http://www.referent-tracking.com/RTU/reftrackparadigm.html Referent Tracking] methodology, (2) to explore how these lessons might be translated to the domains of the defense and intelligence communities, (3) to identify potential benefits relating to semantic technology, and (4) to explore how these benefits can enhance OBP.
'''The Problem:''' Ever increasing quantities of disaggregated data pose a problem for intelligence analysis. The problem is magnified when much of the data is sparse, obscure, or ever-changing. A key contributor to this problem is the inconsistency of data management policies. Mutually incompatible data management solutions have been and continue to be adopted not only by organizations but also by different departments within organizations. Data, as a result, is difficult to aggregate, and difficult to discover and to interpret, sometimes even difficult to interpret by those who created the data in the first place. This problem of too-much data inconsistently handled has an analogue in medicine in the realm of patient data. Electronic Health Records, for example, are collections of data about patients which grow and change in ways which make it difficult to track the medical state of a patient as it changes over time, for example as patients move between hospitals.
'''The Research:''' Intelligence data is useful only if it is available to decision makers when they need it. The subject of this conference is an Intelligence Community (IC) inter-organizational data architecture that has the potential to rapidly handle the enormous amounts of data collected continuously by the IC. The data architecture –– called ‘Enhanced Object-Based Production’ (E-OBP) –– is based on the Referent Tracking (RT) approach developed and tested in the medical domain over some 15 years [http://www.referent-tracking.com/RTU/papers.html]. E-OBP takes the object-oriented approach of Object-Based Production (OBP) but expands ‘object’ to any salient portion of reality. This allows traditional OBP to be transformed into an expressive, flexible, and scalable, data architecture.
The governing principle of E-OBP is to structure data that objectively mirrors reality in a way that allows tracking. Reality is made of unique entities with shared features and relationships indexed to locations and times. E-OBP uses 1) unique identifiers to refer to unique entities, 2) terms from a controlled vocabulary to represent features, relationships, times, and places, and 3) time-indexed, first-order logic expressible, assertions to represent when an entity has some feature or some relationship to other entities.
E-OBP applies not only to data about first-order reality – tanks, people, missions, economic transactions, and so on – but also to data about these data, which it tracks using the same information infrastructure. It tracks when data become available, who made it available, the methods by which it was obtained, and whether it should be trusted [https://buffalo.box.com/s/jryzqr7nh85eu41k0skz1jk8xex9fne8]. It also records when data is discovered to be inaccurate, in a way that allows for more sophisticated error tracking. All of these data are brought together by the system to form a gigantic evolving graph, which forms a comprehensive and continuously adjusted picture of reality structured to allow zooming on identified threats, sensitive areas, government actions, and so forth.


== Participants ==
== Participants ==
 
:Claire Allen, CBP
TBA
:Carter Benson, UB
:John Beverley, UB
:J Bittner, BasisPath
:Andrea Bogle, Aerospace
:Makrui Bogumian, Aerospace
:Chuch Cessna, Celestar
:Ann Clark, Nearmap
:Tim Coleman, BasisPath
:Werner Cuesters, UB
:Geoff Davis, Celestar
:Matt Diller, U FLorida
:Jennifer DeCamp, Mitre
:Bill Hogan, U FLorida
:Forrest Hare, Summit Knowledge Solutions
:Richard Hencke, Air Force Research Laboratory
:Danny Holloway, Celestar
:Roman Ilin, Air Force Research Laboratory
:Mark Jensen, CUBRC
:Kieran Johnson, General Motors
:Austin Liebers, UB
:Bill Lussier, Expressions Networks
:Thomas McCullough, ODNI/IC CIO/AIG
:Gilbert Mak, DOD
:Ronald Nussbaum, Aerospace
:Bonnie O'Neil, Mitre
:Tim Phillips, DHS
:Tim Prudhomme, UB
:Ryan Riccucci, CBP
:Karen Richardson, Aerospace
:Victor Rohr, Aerospace
:Alec Sculley, UB
:Barry Smith, UB
:James Tuson, SAIC
:Bryan Weaver, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Latest revision as of 14:53, 4 December 2023

Venue Information

SAIC Rosslyn, 1911 Fort Myer Dr, Arlington, VA

Arlington Conference Room, fifth floor (capacity: 40 people)
Iwo Jima Room, for speaker prep, breaks, breakout session (capacity 8-10)

Timing/Set-up

Room will open at 7am the day of the conference for set-up/tech check..

Primary Contacts

Dr. Barry Smith
email: phismith@buffalo.edu
Carter Benson
email: carterbe@buffalo.edu

Program

June 22

10:00-10:10 Introduction and Welcome

10:10-11:00 Introduction to Basic Formal Ontology (BFO)

Speaker: Barry Smith, University at Buffalo and the National Center for Ontological Research.

11:10-12:00 Introduction to Referent Tracking (RT) (Slides)

Speaker: Werner Ceusters, University at Buffalo, Division Chief of Biomedical Ontology.

12:00-1:00 Break for Lunch

1:00-1:50 Object Based Production Overview (Slides)

Speaker: Jim Tuson

2:00-2:50 Introduction to Object Based Production (OBP) (Slides)

Speakers: Geoff X. Davis, Celestar Corporation, Danny Holloway, Celestar Corporation, James Tuson, SAIC.

3:00-3:50 OBP and RT

Werner Ceusters, University at Buffalo,
Geoff X. Davis, Celestar Corporation
Jim Tuson, SAIC

4:00-5:15 Introduction to Defense Ontologies & OBP Applications

Speaker: Forrest Hare, Knowledge Solutions.

June 23

9:00-9:50 PROV-O to BFO Mapping (Slides)

Speaker: Austin Liebers, University at Buffalo

10:00-10:50 RDF Star Seminar (Slides)

Speaker: Forrest Hare, Knowledge Solutions.

11:00-11:40 Warrant in Data Collection and Data Processing (Slides)

Speaker: Barry Smith, UB

11:40-1:00 Break for Lunch

1:00-TBD Keynote: Rapid Adaptive Ontology Development for Homeland Security

Speaker: Ryan Riccucci, Division Chief, U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Registration

There is no registration fee for this event. If you would like to participate, please contact Carter Benson by June 1st at the email above for further details.

Security

Due to SAIC protocols, no non-US citizens can participate in the conference in person or virtually.
Security Badges will be given out at the door.

Tech

A projector and laptop will be provided. Virtual conference attendance will be available for confirmed participants.

Refreshments

Lunch will be offsite.

Parking

There is a parking garage underneath SAIC Rosslyn. Parking will be validated.

Hotel Recommendation

Five Star Accommodation

The Ritz-Carlton Georgetown, 3100 South St NW, Washington, DC 20007

Four Star Accommodation

The Graham Georgetown, 1075 Thomas Jefferson St NW, Washington, DC 20007
Le Meridien Arlington, 1121 19th St N, Arlington, VA 22209
Hyatt Centric Arlington, 1325 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA 22209


Participants

Claire Allen, CBP
Carter Benson, UB
John Beverley, UB
J Bittner, BasisPath
Andrea Bogle, Aerospace
Makrui Bogumian, Aerospace
Chuch Cessna, Celestar
Ann Clark, Nearmap
Tim Coleman, BasisPath
Werner Cuesters, UB
Geoff Davis, Celestar
Matt Diller, U FLorida
Jennifer DeCamp, Mitre
Bill Hogan, U FLorida
Forrest Hare, Summit Knowledge Solutions
Richard Hencke, Air Force Research Laboratory
Danny Holloway, Celestar
Roman Ilin, Air Force Research Laboratory
Mark Jensen, CUBRC
Kieran Johnson, General Motors
Austin Liebers, UB
Bill Lussier, Expressions Networks
Thomas McCullough, ODNI/IC CIO/AIG
Gilbert Mak, DOD
Ronald Nussbaum, Aerospace
Bonnie O'Neil, Mitre
Tim Phillips, DHS
Tim Prudhomme, UB
Ryan Riccucci, CBP
Karen Richardson, Aerospace
Victor Rohr, Aerospace
Alec Sculley, UB
Barry Smith, UB
James Tuson, SAIC
Bryan Weaver, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency