Members of NCOR in Buffalo have been rather busy submitting work for the 2024 conference season. Here are a few submissions accepted to various conferences (full papers unless otherwise stated):

• Formal Ontologies and Information Science (FOIS) - 3 proceedings

  1. The Common Core Ontologies - Mark Jensen, Giacomo de Colle, Sean Kindya, Cameron More, Alexander Cox, John Beverley

  2. Fiat Surfaces in Basic Formal Ontology - Michael Rabenberg & Werner Cuesters

  3. Representing Cyberspace with the Basic Formal Ontology - Giacomo De Colle

• Joint Ontologies Workshop (JOWO) - 7 proceedings

  • Foundations for Digital Twins - Finn Wilson, Regina Hurley, Dan Maxwell, Jon McLellan, John Beverley

  • Capabilities - John Beverley, David Limbaugh, Eric Merrell, Peter Koch, Barry Smith

  • Middle Architecture Criteria - John Beverley, Giacomo de Colle, Mark Jensen, Carter Benson, Barry Smith

  • Towards a Cyber Information Ontology - David Limbaugh, Mark Jensen, John Beverley

  • Ontologies, Arguments, and Large-Language Models - John Beverley, Francesco Franda, Hedi Karray, Dan Maxwell, Carter Benson, Barry Smith

  • My Ontologist: Evaluating BFO-Based AI for Definition Support - Carter Benson, Austin Leibers, Alec Sculley, John Beverley

  • Evaluating the Basic Formal Ontology as a Top-Level Framework for the Interoperability of Pistoia Alliance Ontologies - Giacomo de Colle, James Egan, Andrey Seleznev, Asiyah Yu Lin

• International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies - 1 journal track; 3 proceedings; 2 posters

  • Credentials in the Occupation Ontology - John Beverley, Robin McGill, Sam Smith, Jie Zheng, Giacomo de Colle, Finn Wilson, Matthew Diller, William Duncan, William R. Hogan, Oliver He

  • Grounding Realizable Entities - Michael Rabenberg, Carter Benson, Federico Donato, Oliver He, Anthony Huffman, Shane Babcock, John Beverley

  • Are Continuant Fiat Boundaries Independent Continuants? - Michael Rabenberg & Werner Cuesters

  • Concretizing Plan Specifications as Realizables within the OBO Foundry - William Duncan, Damion Dooley, Matthew Diller, William R. Hogan, John Beverley (Journal of Biomedical Semantics)

  • Representing Bionic-vision Devices in the Neural Electronic Interface Ontology (Poster) - Jisoo Seo, Alexander Diehl, William Duncan, et. al.

  • Building an Ontology of Pain (Poster) - William Duncan, Finn Wilson, Jisoo Seo, Alexander Diehl, et. al.

• Cambridge Conference on Catastrophic Risk - 1 poster

  • Addressing Big Data as a Global Catastrophic Risks (GCR) Through Ontology and International Standards (Poster) - Federico Donato, Daniel Novotný, John Beverley

• International Semantic Web Research Summer School - 1 poster

  • Grounding Realizables in BFO (Poster) - Federico Donato