The following is an evolving collection of references to material that I either discuss in class or is relevant. In order to save me time, I will not give precise formal references, IF the document is available online. (You can always use google to track down the reference from its title.)

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General references to ontology and conceptual modeling

• Books

• John Sowa's web pages  (Sowa's book on Knowledge Representation would be a recommended reference text.)
good coverage of a lot of issues; the main idiosyncracy is the use of Conceptual Graphs -- a special notation for FOL -- which is restricted to a rather narrow community.
• "Conceptual Modeling", by M Boman, JA Bubenko Jr, P Johannesson, B Wangler - 1997 - Prentice-Hall
Good book for those interested in database design. But uses Prolog for describing conceptual models, which is very unusual.
•  Conferences  that frequently publish material relevant to ontologies, conceptual modeling, etc.
• CoopIS/DOA/OODBASE Conferences
• Intern. Semantic Web Conferences (ISWC)
• Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management (EKAW)
• Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS)
• Conceptual Modeling (ER)
•  Journals publishing a lot of relevant material
• Journal of Data Semantics
• Journal of Web Semantics
• Data and Knowledge Engineeriing
• IEEE Trans. Knowledge and Data Engineering (has a lot of other stuff too, concerning databases)
Web sites with interesting, relevant information
• Collection of lectures and tutorials on the Semantic Web (REASE)
• W3C Semantic Web Activity (check out Publications and Presentations; lots of "propaganda"/"vision")
• (Ontology & philosophy)

Week 1  What is Ontology and What (if anything) is it Good For?

• Chandrasekaran on What is Ontology and Why is it Useful
An early paper on uses of ontology, by an AI researcher
• Rector on Why Medical Terminology is Hard
Intended for a medical audience
• Guarino on different meanings of "Ontology"
• Visions on how ontologies can help (we will later revisit these topics in much greater detail)
• Ontologies and Bioinformatics
• Ontology-assisted Information Retrieval (not an unqualified success!)
•  Semantic Integration of Information Sources/Databases (Doan et al, Uschold & Gruninger)

Week 3  Continuation: reification, materialization, partOf, roles

Week 4  Representing actions (UML,FrameNet,Petri Nets)

 Week 5 Workflows; Uniform modeling (SADT, RML)

Week 6  Reasoning about Conceptual Models

• Reasoning about UML models;  translation to FOL
• Description Logics I

• RDF(S) and OWL
• PROTEGE
• Translating UML into DL

• Reasoning in Description Logics
• Representing information about actions and plans in DLs

Week 9 Upper Level Ontologies

• The DOLCE upper ontology
• The OntoClean methodology for checking correctness
• Cyc, SUMO, and other upper ontologies.

Week 10 Modeling Intentional Aspects; application to Software Engineering

• Goals, Arguments, Dependencies -- the i* project
• Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering using KAOS

Week 11 Information Integration and Ontologies

• Approaches to Database Integration (LAV,GAV); example of projects using ontologies ;
• Discovering mappings between databases and ontologies