Author: Fumiaki Toyoshima
SCOR General Meeting – Fall 2026
On September 17, the SCOR General Meeting for the Fall 2026 edition was held online. However, the meeting did not take place as originally planned. As our guest speaker, Dr. John Beverley, was unable to attend due to an urgent matter, and the number of participants was initially very limited, we decided to end the…
SCAO 2027: SCOR’s Second Flagship Colloquium
We’re delighted to host the Second Swiss Colloquium on Applied Ontology (SCAO 2027), SCOR’s flagship event, at the University of Neuchâtel on February 4–5, 2027. The event is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). SCAO 2027 features two exciting themes: “Ontology of Food: Modeling the Edible Alps” and “AI, Concepts, and Conceptualization: From…
Workshop: “Ontology of Money and Beyond”
We are delighted to announce that the one-day workshop “Ontology of Money and Beyond” will take place in Neuchâtel, home of SCOR, on Friday, October 23, 2026 (CEST). The workshop brings together leading researchers in philosophy and applied ontology to examine the ontological status of money and to reflect on its place within a broader…
6th SCOR Online Seminar
On June 30, we held the 6th SCOR online seminar, featuring two guest speakers, Dr. Martin Glauer and Dr. Fabian Neuhaus, both leading researchers in the development of formal ontologies and their applications. The seminar focused on semantic dependency in ontologies, a concept that is both theoretically profound and practically significant. In the first half…
5th SCOR Online Seminar
On April 29, we hosted the 5th SCOR online seminar, featuring Dr. Roberta Ferrario as our guest speaker. She delivered an engaging presentation on the ontology of digital twins — a topic of growing importance in industrial innovation and digital transformation — within the context of the SMARTEST project, in which she is currently involved.…
“Best of JOWO 2025” Award from SCOR
We are proud to announce that Fumiaki Toyoshima (SCOR member, University of Neuchâtel) and Ludger Jansen (SCOR external collaborator, Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Brixen) have received the “Best of JOWO 2025” award for their paper: “Malfunctioning Artifacts: A Step Towards a Realizable-Centered Unifying Account” The paper was presented at the 9th Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2025), held…
SCOR General Meeting – Winter 2025-2026
On February 6, the SCOR General Meeting for the Winter 2025–2026 edition was convened as part of the First Swiss Colloquium on Applied Ontology (SCAO 2026). The meeting fostered a substantive discussion on future opportunities and challenges facing the SCAO 2026 community, with invited speakers offering contributions aimed at strengthening and expanding ontology-related research communities.…
SCAO 2026: Keynote Address
On February 5, 2026, we were honored to welcome Nicola Guarino, one of the most prominent figures in the field of applied ontology, as the keynote speaker at the First Swiss Colloquium on Applied Ontology (SCAO 2026), SCOR’s flagship event. His keynote lecture addressed the philosophical notion of truthmaking from the perspective of applied ontology…
4th SCOR Online Seminar
On December 11, we hosted the 4th SCOR online seminar, where it was our pleasure to welcome Prof. Achille C. Varzi as our guest speaker. Prof. Varzi delivered an insightful presentation on mereotopology, a core field of theoretical study within applied ontology. While the topic was at times quite technical due to the formal principles…
Third SCOR Online Seminar
On October 30, the third SCOR online seminar took place, featuring a presentation by Dr. Tarcisio Mendes de Farias from the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB). His talk examined the interplay between ontologies, knowledge representation, and Large Language Models (LLMs), shedding light on current challenges and opportunities in this rapidly evolving research domain. The seminar…
