JCOR

Preliminary Announcement On February 26-27, 2008 there took place in Tokyo the Inaugural Conference of the Japanese Center for Ontological Research. A joint NCBO-JCOR Workshop on Biomedical Ontologies was organized as part of this event.

The JCOR Inaugural Conference was organized in cooperation with

• NCOR, the US National Center for Ontological Research
• ECOR, the European Center for Ontological Research.

Some presentations from the meeting:

• Thomas Bittner, [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/08/Tokyo/bittner.pdf Ontology and Qualitative Medical

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• Werner Ceusters, Harmonization of Patient Assessment Instruments in the USA: A Compelling Case for Realism-Based Ontology

• Nicola Guarino, Ontologies, Conceptualizations, and Possible Worlds

• Riichiro Mizoguchi, Functional Ontology of Artifacts

• Alan Ruttenberg, The Semantic Web for Scientific Research: A ‘perfect storm’ for the development of Ontology

• Barry Smith, The Evaluation of Ontologies