Workshop on Ontologies in Medicine

jointly organized by:

CNR-ISTC,Laboratory for Applied Ontology (www.loa-cnr.it)

IFOMIS, Leipzig (www.ifomis.de)

 

 

October 8-9, 2003

 

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

"Pentagono" wing, 2nd floor

entrance from Via dei Ramni (near Piazza Aldo Moro)

 

 

 

October 8

 

 

Welcome by the director of CNR-ISTC, prof.Cristiano Castelfranchi

9.30 - 9.45

 

Barry Smith and Domenico M. Pisanelli

Introduction to the Workshop

9.45 - 10.00

 

Barry Smith

(University of Buffalo and IFOMIS, Leipzig)

Parts and Classes in Biomedical Ontology

10.00 - 10.45

 

Coffee Break

10.45 - 11.15

 

Domenico M. Pisanelli

(CNR ISTC, Rome)

If ontology is the solution, what is the problem? Some issues related to the application of ontologies in medicine

11.15 - 12.00

 

Lunch

12.00 - 13.30

 

Olivier Bodenreider

(NLM, Bethesda)

From biomedical language to biomedical knowledge: Uncovering relations

expressed through reification and other linguistic phenomena

13.30- 14.15

 

Anita Burgun and Christine Golbreich

About semantic integration of biomedical information

14.15- 15.00

 

Coffee Break

15.00 - 15.30

 

Werner Ceusters

(Language and Computing, Zonnegem, Belgium)

Mistakes in medical ontologies: where do they come from and how can they be discovered?

15.30 - 16.15

 

Discussion

16.15 - 17.00

 

 

October 9th

 

Aziz Boxwala

(Decision Systems Group, Harvard Medical School)

Design and applications for a patient safety ontology

9.30 - 10.15

 

Aldo Gangemi

(CNR ISTC, Rome)

Applications of the Description and Situation (D&S) framework to core biomedical ontologies

10.15 - 11.00

 

Coffee Break

11.00 - 11.30

 

Matteo Piazza

(University of Pavia)

Structuring sociocognitive factors for telemedicine systems

11.30 - 12.00

 

Louis Goldberg

(IFOMIS, Leipzig)

Dynamic biomedical ontology

12.00 - 12.45

 

 

CNR's building is located in Piazza Aldo Moro, not far from "Termini" railway and subway station

Entrance to the workshop room is from the back side of the building, in Via dei Ramni.

 

 

Participation to the workshop is free, but attendance is limited.

Those interested should contact: pisanelli@libero.it