Past Events

2024

Enhanced Object Based Production Conference; Part Two, Tampa, March 21-22, 2024

BoaT Workshop, UB North Campus, Buffalo, NY, April 9, 2024

Semantic Technology for Intelligence, Defense and Security (STIDS), George Mason University, October 22-24, 2024.

Exploring Career Opportunities in Tech for Non-STEM Students, October 30, 2024

2023

Tenth Clinical and Translational Science Ontology Workshop: Ontologies, AI and Electronic Health Records, Charleston SC, February 23-24, 2023

Basic Formal Ontology Summit Meeting, University of Buffalo, March 23-25, 2023

Enhanced Object-Based Production Conference, SAIC Rosslyn, Arlington VA, June 22-23

Buffalo Toronto Ontology Alliance (BoaT) Meeting, University of Toronto, July 14, 2023

Ontology Group Meeting, August 9, 2023

2022

Nineth Clinical and Translational Science Ontology Workshop, Orlando, March 15-18, 2022

Buffalo Ontology Group Meeting, University at Buffalo, Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Workshop on the Ontology of Finance, University at Buffalo, Saturday, May 7, 2022

Buffalo Ontology Group Meeting, University at Buffalo, Medical Campus, Wednesday, May 11, 2022

IAD Distinguished Speaker Series--Why Machines Will Never Rule the World, September 20, 2022

Ontology Group Meeting, October 3, 2022

Ontology Day (with visitors from Toronto), October 24, 2022, News item on this visit

2021

Joint meeting of NCOR and NCOR Brazil

Monday, November 15 at 4:00pm

focusing primarily on commercial ontology

Schedule

16:00 Barry Smith: Recent developments in Buffalo ontology

16:15 Mauricio Almeida: Examples for the Ontology of Commercial Exchange

16:30 Eric Merrell: Common Core Conformant Definitions for an Ontology of Commerical Exchange

16:45 Gloria Sanso: Defining 'Act of Payment'

17:00 Heliana Mello: Can NLP support ontology development -- with examples from commerce

AI and the Ontology of Complex Systems

organized by the Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto

Tuesday November 23, 2021, 10:00am - 12:00pm

Details here

On the Legg-Hutter Definition of 'Universal Intelligence', Buffalo, NY, March 12, 2021

Classifying Philosophy: Problems and Strategies, March 31, 2021

2020

Industrial Ontologies Foundry Meeting, Buffalo, NY, March 5, 2020

Ontologies of Space and Ground Systems, Buffalo, NY, January 22, 2020

Social Ontology and Social Normativity, Buffalo, NY, January 27, 2020

2019

Lecture by Maurizio Ferraris on The Internet: A Political Approach, Buffalo, November 1, 2019.

Protein Ontology Consortium Workshop, Georgetown University Medical Center, October 23-24.

Meeting of the Task Force for Intelligent Materials Standards, University at Buffalo, October 8-9, 2019

Tutorial on Top-Level Ontologies and ISO/IEC:21838, part of JOWO 2019, Graz, September 24, 2019

Lecture on the Ontology of Document Acts, Jobst Landgrebe, Cognitekt, Cologne, Germany, September 5, 2019.

Richard de Rozario on Competency Questions, Buffalo, September 19, 2019.

Ontology of Economics, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, May 8, 2019

International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies, ICBO 2019, Jacobs School of Medicine, Buffalo, NY, July 29-August 2, 2019

Tutorial on Basic Formal Ontology, organized concurrently with ICBO 2019, Buffalo, July 30, 2019 Video

Ontology and Artificial Intelligence, 5-Day Course, University of Ticino, Lugano, Switzerland, April 8-12, 2019

Industrial Ontologies Workshop, Det Norske Veritas (DNV), Oslo, Norway, February 4-7, 2019

Buffalo Ontology Group Meeting, Capen Hall, University at Buffalo, Feb 11, 2019, presentation by David Limbaugh on the Cognitive Process Ontology and its Application to Diagnostic Processes.

Ontology for Precision Medicine: From Genomes to Public Health, Seventh Clinical and Translational Science Ontology Workshop, Orlando, Florida, February 20-21, 2019

2018

Relation Ontology 2018, Denver, CO, October 24-25, 2018

Navy SYSCOM and DoD Ontology Workshop, Engility, Washington DC, September 18-19

International Conference on Biological Ontology, Corvallis, OR, August 7-10, 2018

Industrial Ontologies Foundry (IOF) Workshop, Buffalo. NY, July 18-19, 2018

Capabilities: Human and Machine, Buffalo. NY, April 20, 2018

Buffalo Ontology Group Meeting, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo, April 9, 2018

2017

Ontology Group Meeting, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, 3-5pm, April 9, 2018

Systems Engineering Ontology Bootcamp, UB North Campus, January 26, 2018. Video

Ontology Group Meeting, Jeannette Martin Room, University at Buffalo, 3-5pm, November 20, 2017

1. Update on ISO

2. Extending BFO:object via treatment of levels of granularity

3. Capabilities from a BFO perspective

4. Introducing Erik Thomsen

Werner Ceusters talk on "Are linguistics-based event classifications useful for realism-based process classifications?", Department of Philosophy, 141 Park Hall, University at Buffalo North Campus, noon, Friday, November 10, 2017 Abstract

CTS Ontology Workshop 2017, Microbiology for the CTSA: Ontological Approaches, Ann Arbor, October 25-26, 2017

Protein Ontology Consortium Workshop, Bar Harbor, Maine, October 11-12, 2017

Industry Ontologies Foundry: ASME Workshop 2017, Cleveland, August 6, 2017

IAOA Summer Institute on Upper Ontologies, Toronto, August 8-11, 2017

The International Association of Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) is announcing the 2017 Summer Institute on Upper Ontologies

Participants from all sectors of applied ontology are invited to interact from August 8 to 11, in Toronto, Canada. As always, the Summer Institute will challenge the state of the art through lively discussions and hands-on problem solving rather than lengthy presentations.

MatOnto Ontology Meeting, University at Buffalo, April 3-5, 2017

Buffalo Ontology Group Meeting, University at Buffalo, March 13, 2017 Schedule: Group Meeting March 31, 2017

2016

Ontology Group Meeting, October 21, 2016

CTS Ontology Workshop 2016, Clinical Terminology Shock and Awe, Buffalo, NY, September 7-8, 2016

Ontology Group Meeting, University at Buffalo, April 25, 2016

• José M. Parente de Oliveira​​ (ITA Brazil): "​​A Visual Formalism for BFO-Based Ontologies" Slides

• Hedi Karray (ENIT, Tarbes, France): "Applications of Ontologies in Astrophysics and Manufacturing Domains" Slides

• Mark Jensen (United Nations Environment Programme): "The UNEP Sustainable Development Goals Interface Ontology (SDGIO)" Slides

Organized jointly with the UB Center for Multisource Information Fusion

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June 10, 2016

2pm Discussion on establishing an Industry Ontology Foundry, with talks by Barry Smith and Hedi Karay

3pm Presentation by Boran Brodaric on Water Feature Ontology and Timeless Wholes

May 19-20, 2016 Ontological Approaches to Sensor Data Analysis, Amherst, NY

March 21, 2016, 141 Park Hall, Buffalo

Fabian Neuhaus talk on DOL: The Distributed Ontology Language

February 17-19, 2016 Gainesville, FL

Workshop on BFO and the Ontology of Social Entities

Feb 2 and all Tuesdays until April 19 1-3:50pm, 141 Park Hall, Buffalo

A series of seminars on various ontology-related topics, listed here.

Feb. 1, 2016, 567 Capen Hall, Buffalo Meeting on various ontology topics, including:

Non-Coding RNA Ontology (Alan Ruttenberg)

Ontology for Manufacturing (Francesco Furini)

• We propose an ontology focused on the representation of composite materials in general and what are called 'Functionally Graded Materials' (FGM) in particular. The scope of the ontology is to provide information about the components of such materials, the manufacturing processes involved in creating such materials, and different sorts of applications in dentistry and other fields. The ontology is developed using Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) and parts of of Ontology for Biomedical Investigation (OBI).

Plant Life Cycle Ontology (Barry Smith)

2015

Meeting on Current UB Ontology Projects, IHI, 3pm, December 14, 2015

Information Meeting on Joint Doctrine Ontology, Herndon, VA 20171, September 16-17, 2015

The Role of Ontology in Big Cancer Data, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, May 12-13, 2015

CTS Ontology Workshop 2015, Ontology in Practice. The Fourth Clinical and Translational Science Ontology Workshop. Charleston, SC, September 23-25, 2015

Symposium on Military Codes of Ethics, Buffalo, NY 14260, November 2, 2015

See also here and here

2014

Ontology and Imaging Informatics, Buffalo, NY, June 23-25, 2014

Information Artifact Ontologies, Workshop organized as part of the FOIS 2014 Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 22, 2014

Buffalo Ontology Group Meeting, IHI, Buffalo, January 27, 2014

Maurizio Ferraris: The Ontology of Social Reality, Buffalo, March 10, 2014

Fabian Neuhaus: Computational Creativity, CTRC, Buffalo, March 21, 2014

2013

ImmPort: A Guide for Submitters, workshop organized in conjunction with Rho Federal Systems Division, Chapel Hill, NC, October 9-10, 2013

How to Advance Reusability of Immunology Data, Buffalo, July 23, 2013

OGMS Workshop, co-located with ICBO 2013, Montreal. Co-located with the Fourth International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO2013), July 10, 2013

BFO 2.0 Meeting, Montreal. Co-located with the Fourth International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO2013), July 10, 2013

OBO Foundry 101: Collaborative ontology development, tool support and semantic web, Montreal. Co-located with the Fourth International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO2013), July 7, 2013

Workshop on Definitions in Ontologies, Montreal. Co-located with the Fourth International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO2013), July 7, 2013

Summer School for Quantitative Systems Immunology, Institute for Computing and Computational Science and Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA. For session on Immunology Ontology by Lindsay Cowell and Barry Smith, Tuesday June 11, 2013 see here, June 10-14, 2013.

PRO-PO-GO Ontology Workshop, Buffalo, May 15-16, 2013

Basic Formal Ontology Meeting, Buffalo, May 13-14, 2013

Ontologies for Information Integration, Buffalo, April 18, 2013. Press coverage of this event

The challenges of big data for military, security and intelligence domains

Military Intelligence Tries To Tame Data 'Monster'

First ImmPort Ontology Group Web Conference, Buffalo and Stanford, April 8, 2013

CTSA Ontology Workshop, Orlando, February 11-12, 2013.

2012

Ontology for Intelligence, Defense and Security, Tutorial, Conference on Semantic Technology for Intelligence, Defense and Security, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, October 22, 2012

Basic Formal Ontology 2.0 Preliminary Development Workshop, Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, National Center for Ontological Research. August 18-19, 2012

International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, Graz, Austria • July 22-25, 2012.

Formal Ontology in Information Systems Graz, Austria • July 25-28, 2012.

Immunology Ontologies and Their Applications in Processing Clinical Data, Buffalo, NY, June 11-13, 2012.

Basic Formal Ontology and the Signature Discovery Ontology, Buffalo, May 1-2, 2012.

Ontology Summit: Ontology for Big Systems, January-April, 2012

2011

Workshop on Ontology Driven Implementation of Semantic Services for the Enterprise Environment: ODISSEE, Washington DC, April 12-13, 2011

2010

An Introduction to Ontology Building (October 23, 2010)

The Future of the Electronic Health Record (September 22, 2010).

2009

Command and Control Core Ontology Exchange Meeting, National Center for Ontological Research and Army Net-Centric Data Strategy Center of Excellence, January 15-16, 2009, Buffalo NY

From BFO to IAO, July 22-23, 2009

International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, July 24-26, 2009

Ontology for the Intelligence Community: Towards Effective Exploitation and Integration of Intelligence Resources, October 21-22, 2009, Fairfax, VA

2008

Ontology for the Intelligence Community: Towards Effective Exploitation and Integration of Intelligence Resources, December 3-4, 2008, Columbia, MD

2007

Ontology for the Intelligence Community: Towards Effective Exploitation and Integration of Intelligence Resources, November 28-29, 2007, Columbia, MD. Proceedings

2006

Ontology for the Intelligence Community: Towards Effective Exploitation and Integration of Intelligence Resources, Columbia, MD, November 30-December 1, 2006

2005

NCOR Inaugural Event, October 27, 2005, Buffalo, NY.

NCOR Inaugural Event, Associated Workshop on Bio-Ontologies, October 28, 2005, Buffalo, NY. For associated presentations see here.

NCBO

Dissemination and training events organized under the auspices of the National Center for Biomedical Ontology.