1st Workshop of COST Action C21
"Ontologies for Urban Development: Interfacing Urban Information Systems"

6,7 November 2006  -   University of Geneva

Preliminary programme (draft)

Monday 6/11

9:00 Registration & Coffee

9:30 Welcome addresses
Dean of the Institut d'architecture de l'Université de Genčve : Rémi Baudouď

10:00 Presentation of the COST C21 Action
Jacques Teller

10:30 Coffee break

KEYNOTE SPEECHES

11:00 The Cost Action C20 : Urban Knowledge Arena
Henrik Nolmark, Urban Laboratory Gothenburg, Sweden

11:45 Ontologies and GIS
Robert Laurini, INSA Lyon, France

SESSION 1 - URBAN PLANNING ONTOLOGIES
Chairman: Giuseppe Rabino

14:00 Ontology for Land Development Decisions and Plans
Nikhil Kaza, Lewis D. Hopkins

14:30 An Ontology-based System for Urban Planning Communication
Claudine Métral, Gilles Falquet, Mathieu Vonlanthen

15:00 Towntology & hydrOntology: Relationship between Urban and Hydrographic Features in the Geographic Information Domain
Luis Manuel Vilches Blázquez, Miguel Ángel Bernabé Poveda, Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa, Asunción Gómez-Pérez, Antonio Federico Rodríguez Pascua

15:30 Coffee break

SESSION 2 - URBAN MORPHOLOGY AND SYSTEMS
Chairman: Albert Dupagne

16:00 Visualizing the Uncertainty of Urban Ontology Terms
Hyowon Ban and Ola Ahlqvist

16:30 Continuity and evolution of ontologies for urban morphological processes
Eduardo Camacho-Hübner, François Golay

17:00 Building spatial ontology:a contribution from urban system analysis
Matteo Caglioni

17:30 A socio-cultural ontology for urban development
Stefan Trausan-Matu

Tuesday 7/11

KEYNOTE SPEECHES

9:00 Ontologies in the Building sector
Michel Bohms, TNO

9:45 How formal ontology can help civil engineers
Stefano Borgo, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR

10:30 Coffee break

SESSION 3 - ENGINEERING METHODS FOR ONTOLOGIES
Chairman: Kostas Karatzas

11:00 Investigating a bottom-up approach for extracting domain ontologies from urban databases
Christophe Chaidron, Roland Billen and Jacques Teller

11:30 Urban Ontologies : the towntology prototype towards case studies
Chantal Berdier, Catherine Roussey

12:00 Building an Address Gazetteer on top of an Urban Network Ontology
J. Nogueras-Iso, F.J. López, J. Lacasta, F.J. Zarazaga-Soria, and P.R. Muro-Medrano

SESSION 4 - ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION SECTOR
Chairman: Guri Krigsvoll

14:00 "Pre-Ontology" Considerations for Communication in Construction
John Lee and Dermott McMeel

14:30 Ontology based communications through model driven tools: the MDA approach feasibility of the approach in urban engineering projects
A.F Cutting Decelle, J.P. Bourey, R. Grangel, R.I.M. Young

15:00 Modelization of the conception and conception of the model in architecture
Emmanuelle Pellegrino

15:30 Twin multi-lingual ontologies for heritage data localisation and retrieval
Jean-Yves Blaise, Francesca De Domenico, Iwona Dudek

16:00 Coffee Break

SESSION 5 - GENERAL DISCUSSION (16:30 - 18:00)