MIN Faculty
Department of Informatics
Knowledge and Language Processing

Formal, artificial and natural ontology

Selected Publications
  • Eschenbach, C.: A mereotopological definition of 'point'. In: C. Eschenbach, Ch. Habel, B. Smith (eds.): Topological Foundations of Cognitive Science. Papers from the Workshop at the FISI-CS, Buffalo, NY. July 9--10, 1994. Graduiertenkolleg Kognitionswissenschaft Hamburg, Bericht 37, 63-80, 1994
  • Eschenbach, C.: Zählangaben - Maßangaben. Bedeutung und konzeptuelle Interpretation von Numeralia. Deutscher Universitätsverlag, Wiesbaden, 1995
  • Eschenbach, C., Heydrich , W.: Classical mereology and restricted domains. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 43, 723-740, 1995
  • Eschenbach, C.: On changes and diachronis identity of spatial socio-economic units. Erscheint in: A. Frank, J. Raper, J. P. Cheylan (Hrgs.): Formalising and Representing Spatial-Temporal Change in Spatial Socio-Economic Units (provisional title) London: Taylor & Francis, GISDATA Series No. 9, ersch. 1998
  • Kulik, L.: Zur Grenzziehung ziwshcen Rand und Grenze. In W. Krause, U. Kottkamp & R. Goertz (eds.), KogWis97. Proceedings der 3. Fachtagung der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft (pp. 104-106). Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 1997
Publications
  • Eschenbach, C. & Özçep, Ö.L. (to appear 2009). Ontology-revision operators based on reinterpretation. Logic Journal of the IGPL. (preprint) (link) (doi)
  • Eschenbach, C. & M. Grüninger (eds.) (2008). Formal Ontology in Information Systems. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference (FOIS 2008). IOS Press: Amsterdam. (IOS Press)
  • Eschenbach, C. & M. Grüninger (eds.) (2008). Formal Ontology in Information Systems. Poster Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference (FOIS 2008). DFKI GmbH, Germany. (.pdf)
  • Özçep, Ö. L. (2008): Towards Principles for Ontology Integration. In C. Eschenbach and M. Grüninger (Hrsg.) Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS-2008), S. 137-150, 2008
  • Özçep, Ö. L., Eschenbach, C. (2007). On the conservativity and stability of ontology revision operators based on reinterpretation. In: Beierle, C. und Kern-Isberner, G. (eds): Dynamics of Knowledge and Belief. Proceedings of the Workshop at the 30th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI-2007, Osnabrück, Germany, September 10, 2007, S. 84-99. (.pdf)
  • Özçep, Ö.L. (2006). Ontology revision through concept contraction. In: Artemov, S. und Parikh, R. (eds.): Proceedings of the Workshop on Rationality and Knowledge, 18th European Summerschool in Logic, Language, and Information, Universidad de Malaga, 7-11 August (pp. 79-90).
  • Eschenbach, C. (2004). How to interweave knowledge about object structure and concepts. In D. Dubois, C. Welty, M.-A. Williams (eds.), Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference (KR2004) (pp. 300-309). Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. (.pdf)
  • Eschenbach, C. (2001): Viewing composition tables as axiomatic systems. In C. Welty & B. Smith (eds.) Formal Ontology in Information Systems. Collected Papers form the Second International Conference (pp. 93-104). New York: ACM Press, 2001. (doi)
  • Eschenbach, C. (2001): On changes and diachronic identity of spatial socio-economic units. In A. Frank, J. Raper & J.P. Cheylan (eds.) Life and Motion of Socio-economic Units (pp. 63-77). London: Taylor & Francis. (Taylor & Francis)
  • Eschenbach, C. (2000): Ontology, predicates, and identity, in St. Winter (ed.), Geographical Domain and Geographical Information Systems (pp. 33-36). Vienna, Austria: Institute for Geoinformation, Vienna University of Technology. (Abstract from the EuroConference on Ontology and Epistemology for Spatial Data Standards.)
  • Eschenbach, C. (1999): A Predication Calculus for Qualitative Spatial Representations. In C. Freksa and D. M. Mark,Spatial information theory - Cognitive and computational foundations of geographic information science (COSIT '99), page(s) 157-172. Springer, Berlin, 1999 (Springer)
  • Pribbenow, S. (1999): Parts and Holes and their Relations. In: Habel, C. & Rickheit, G. (eds.): Mental Models in Discourse Processing and Problem Solving. Elsevier, 1999, pp. 759-782
  • Kulik, L. (1997). Zur Grenzziehung zwischen Rand und Grenze. In W. Krause, U. Kotkamp, and R. Goertz, KogWis97: Proceedings der 3. Fachtagung der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft. pages 104-106. Friedrich-Schiller-Universität. Jena
  • Pribbenow, S. : Parts and Wholes and their Relations. Workshop on Mental Models 95, ZiF, Bielefeld. in: Ch. Habel & G. Rickheit (eds.): Mental Models in Discourse Processing and Problem Solving. John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam