1. Upper Ontologies for Specifying Context
Ontology Summit 2018
Track Session 1: 07 February

2. Track B : Upper Ontologies for Specifying Context
Track Co-champions:
Mike Bennett
David Whitten
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3. Objective
The objective of this Ontology Summit 2018 track is to understand:
The role of upper ontologies in providing or using context
Upper ontology partitions that explicitly define a kind of context
Disposition of other model content that may be considered as the context for something, in the, erm, context of upper ontologies.

4. Words
Unionized

5. Words
Bank

6. Words
Bank
I nearly didn’t come out of that bank

7. Concepts
Building
Aerobatic Maneuver
Is a
Is a
Bank
Bank

8. Scope EVA WHAT WHO WHEN WHERE HOW
Thank you.
The agenda I propose will address the What, Why, Who, How, When and Where of Test and Evaluation.
This will range from Test and Evaluation
of an individual,
of machines (such as this NASCAR vehicle in a wind tunnel rolling on a belt that is moving at 180 mph in order to discover ground effects),
of individuals collaborating on a previously defined task and
of several individuals co-learning in a dynamic situation.
The latter approximates the activity of System Engineering, a system that also needs to be tested and evaluated.
Yes, that means you. And I will tell you why in a few minutes.
" The FAA predicts 400,000 to 2.3M licensed Part 107 remote pilots by 2020”
- FAA Air Traffic Organization Policy: Order JO
WHY
10/9/17

9. Why we Need Context “Meaning is context”
Dictionaries: the meaning (referent) of a word or term is sensitive to the context in which it is used
Ontologies: should deal with that formally
Desired end point: there should be nothing in the ontology for which it can be said that the ‘meaning’ of that item is itself dependent on context
If that is the case the ontology is still just a dictionary
Therefore: ontology must contain within it all the material relating to context

10. KR Lattice Partitions

11. KR Lattice: ‘Relatives’ Partition
Everything which may be defined falls into one of three categories:
Thing
Independent Thing
Relative Thing
Mediating Thing
“All that is in Heaven and Earth”
Anything which represents a meaningful business term, i.e. something which may have a label and a definition, falls under one of the following:
Independent
Relative
Mediating
“Thing in Itself”
e.g. some Person
Thing in some context
e.g. that person as an employee, as a customer, as a pilot…
Context in which the relative things are defined
e.g. employment, sales, aviation

12. Hierarchy of Contexts: Customer
Legal Person
Bank Client
Bank Client Relationship
played by
In context
Retail Customer
Retail Customer Relationship
Natural Person
Organization
Current Account Holder
Current Account Relationship
Loan Borrower
Loan Relationship

13. Session Ideas and Motivations
Hear from the leading TLOs on how they view or handle context
Get someone in from ISO TC37 to talk about this
Structure
Usual: 2 or 3 speakers + discussion
Panel? E.g. convene and interview TLO leaders as distinct from presentations?
Case Studies: get some practical experience on how context is handled in real applications

14. Upper Ontologies The main ones are: Also relevant / have UO elements
BFO
DOLCE
GFO
YAMATO
TUpperWare
UFO
GIST
IDEAS
SUMO
Also relevant / have UO elements
Cyc
The KR Lattice
OntoUML
SMIF
FIBO

15. Discussion Topics Contextual matter in different Top Level Ontologies
Notions of Context itself
Different ways of dealing with Context in different ontology frameworks
Context versus microtheories
Practical applications to solve real world data problems
Context taxonomies

16. Today’s Session
Panel and Overview of how Context is seen and handled in TLOs
Brief presentation followed by Q&A
Open discussions of issues raised
Panelists
Barry Smith: How BFO Deals with Multiple Contexts
BFO Is a top-level -- which means 'domain neutral' -- ontology designed to promote interoperability across information systems dealing with data from different domains. Barry will present the background of BFO in ontology work in biomedicine and geospatial science. BFO serves as top- level ontology for multiple ontology suites. Will focus specifically on examples from the Environment Ontology (ENVO).
Frank Loebe: Context in Abstract Role Models and In the GFO Upper Ontology
Frank will give a brief overview of his views on 'context', including how that term may be thought of in abstract role models, along with how this relates to the General Formal Ontology (GFO) upper ontology

17. Next Session: 14 March More TLOs and their perspectives on context
Practical implications
Case studies and / or pragmatic solutions to contextual problems, that use upper ontologies.

18. Over to our First Speaker