Re: Proc. Int. Workshop on Formal Ontology Etc.

"Nicola Guarino" <guarino@ladseb.pd.cnr.it>

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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 95 20:42:57 +0100
From: "Nicola Guarino" <guarino@ladseb.pd.cnr.it>
Subject: Re: Proc. Int. Workshop on Formal Ontology Etc.
To: "Albert C. Esterline" <esterlin@ncat.edu>, srkb@cs.umbc.edu, cg@cs.umn.edu
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Albert Esterline writes:

>I'm having difficulty getting some of the literature on ontology. In
>particular, I keep seeing references to an International Workshop on
>Formal Ontology in Conceptual Analysis and Knowledge Representation,
>Padova.  One reference I found claims that the proceedings are being
>edited by Guarino and Poli for publication by Kluwer.  I phoned
>Kluwer, and they have no information on such a publication.  (This
>doesn't mean it's not in the works, only that it hasn't yet been
>published.)  Does anyone know how I can get ahold of the proceedings
>(however rough) of this workshop?

The proceedings of the Padova workshop (which ONLY appeared as LADSEB-CNR
Int. Rep) are now out of stock. A selection of these papers (in a completely
revised form) was planned to appear in a Kluwer book, edited by me and
Roberto Poli; unfortunately there has been a misunderstanding with Kluwer on
this respect, and we have been now forced to contact another publisher. We
are of course quite sorry for this inconvenience, and we are doing our best
to get the book published very soon.

>(By the way, are other
>LADSEB-CNR Int. Rep.'s available electronically?)

We have just put up a WWW site, in a very preliminary form. Look at

http://www.ladseb.pd.cnr.it/infor/infor_research.html

to learn more about the AI & Robotics Group at LADSEB and to access to our
publications on Ontological Foundations of Knowledge Representation. Other
related publications developed in the framework of our National Project on
Ontological and Linguistic Tools for Conceptual Modelling will be available
on the Web very soon.

-- Nicola
Nicola Guarino
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