Formal Ontology in Information Systems

Abstract

The proceedings contain 20 papers. The topics discussed include: towards applied constructional ontology; on relative ontological commitment; concepts as variable embodiments; charting possible worlds: the quest for meaning in ontologies; the role of plans for qua-events and their effects on part-structure; measuring similarities of literary characters; reinvigorating structured knowledge and ontologies for trustworthy and beneficial AI and robotics; semantic dependency in ontologies; ontology-driven software development: generating java code from OntoUML; and process representation meets operational realization: an architecture for data-driven process ontology application through process mining.