SUO: Introduction to Marco Schorlemmer
All,
Here is a brief introduction to Marco Schorlemmer. His coordinates are:
Dr. Marco Schorlemmer
Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications
School of Informatics
The University of Edinburgh
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/marco
marco@inf.ed.ac.uk
As Jim S. has mention in his request for comments, Marco has volunteered to
serve as Technical Editor of the IFF document, and has the full support of
the IFF group.
I first met Marco last fall at a mini-workshop at Boeing on semantic
integration that was hosted by Mike Uschold. He has a good understanding of
the theory of Information Flow and category theory, and he has published in
the area of semantic integration.
Marco is currently working on the axiomatization for the core theory of
Information Flow that appears in Barwise and Seligman's book on *Information
Flow* (and also more explicitly in my "IF Foundation ..." paper
http://www.ontologos.org/Papers/ISKO6/ISKO6.pdf.)
As mentioned on the IFF-OO Work in Progress page
http://suo.ieee.org/IFF/metalevel/lower/ontology/ontology/work-in-progress.h
tml
the IFF Ontology (meta) Ontology (IFF-OO) is a first order representation of
this core IF theory.
Marco's efforts here have helped him understand more completely the
principles of the IFF axiomatization. My work with him in this regard has
gone very smoothly. [BTW, if you all believe there is a conflict of interest
in Marco serving as the IFF TE and in Marco actively writing IFF axioms,
then an obvious solution is for Marco to instead concentrate his attentions
on other IFF TE activities -- see the following.]
Marco has expressed great interest in the issue of how IFF can serve as a
framework for relating SUMO and OpenCyc ontologies, and for organizing its
modules and microtheories into a lattice of theories. His is not an expert
on either SUMO or OpenCyc, but he is certainly interested in the issue of
ontology mapping. Some of his work with Yannis Kalfoglou on an application
of an IF-based ontology mapping methodology is listed below in their
ODBASE'02 paper and technical report:
http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/marco/ifbom.pdf
http://www.informatics.ed.ac.uk/publications/report/0161.html
We thank Marco very much for volunteering for the position of IFF TE.
In summary, the IFF group believes that Marco will make a good technical
editor and we look forward to an enjoyable and productive collaboration.
Robert E. Kent
rekent@ontologos.org
P.S. Marco is off on holidays starting tomorrow, and won't be back until May
26th. He will be able to interact and answer emails when he returns.