Programme of the First KR-MED Workshop

07:45 - 08:15 On-site registration

08:15 - 08:30 Welcome address (Udo Hahn)

08:30 - 10:00 Session I: Knowledge Representation Perspectives on Medical Terminologies
(Chair: Stefan Schulz)

08:30 - 09:00 Symbolic modeling of structural relationships in the Foundational Model of Anatomy
   José L.V. Mejino, Cornelius Rosse

09:00 - 09:30 Investigating subsumption in DL-based terminologies: A Case Study in SNOMED CT
   Olivier Bodenreider, Barry Smith, Anand Kumar, Anita Burgun

09:30 - 10:00 Examining SNOMED from the perspective of formal ontological principles: Some preliminary analysis and observations
   Kent A. Spackman, Guillermo Reynoso

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10:30 - 12:30 Session II: Foundations for Bio-Medical Ontologies
(Chair: Ronald Cornet)

10:30 - 11:00 Using semantic dependencies for consistency management of an ontology of brain-cortex anatomy 
   Olivier Dameron, Bernard Gilbaud, Mark Musen

11:00 - 11:30 Axioms for parthood and containment relations in bio-ontologies
   Thomas Bittner

11:30 - 12:00 Towards a computational paradigm for biomedical structure
   Stefan Schulz, Udo Hahn

12:00 - 12:30 STEEL: A spatio-temporal extended event language for tracking epidemic spread from outbreak reports
   Hervé Chaudet

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13:30 - 15:00 Session III: Ontology Engineering
(Chair: Olivier Bodenreider)

13:30 - 14:00 An ontology of randomized controlled trials for evidence-based practice: Content specification and evaluation using the competency decomposition method
   Ida Sim, Ben Olasov, Simona Carini

14:00 - 14:30 Lessons Learned from aligning two representations of anatomy
   Songmao Zhang, Peter Mork, Olivier Bodenreider

14:30 - 15:00 Using C-OWL for the alignment and merging of medical ontologies
   Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Frank van Harmelen, Paolo Bouquet, Fausto Giunchiglia,
   Luciano Serafini

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15:30 - 16:30 Session IV: Towards the Biomedical Semantic Web
(Chair: Frank van Harmelen)

15:30 - 16:00 Representing the MeSH in OWL: Towards a semi-automatic migration
   Lina Soualmia, Christine Golbreich, Stéfan Darmoni

16:00 - 16:30 Weaving the biomedical Semantic Web with the Protégé OWL Plugin
   Holger Knublauch, Olivier Dameron, Mark A. Musen

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16:40 - 18:00 Panel "Medical Knowledge Representation: Issues, Challenges and New Directions"
Moderator: Udo Hahn
Panelists: 
   Cornelius Rosse
   Frank van Harmelen
   Olivier Bodenreider
   Ronald Cornet

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