Foundational issues Basic ontological categories and relations Formal comparison and evaluation of ontologies

Ontology, language, cognition Ontology and natural-language semantics Formal semantics of discourse and dialogue relations Ontology and lexical resources Ontology, visual perception and multimedia

Ontology-driven information systems Methodologies for ontology development Ontology-driven conceptual modeling Ontology-driven information integration & retrieval

Application domains Organizations, social reality, law Business services and e-government Industrial artifacts, manufacturing, engineering design Formal models of interaction and cooperation