Recent Papers

  • Robert E. Kent (1998). The Model Theory of Onto Logic.

  • Robert E. Kent (1999a). Conceptual Knowledge Markup Language: The Central Core. In the Electronic Proceedings of the Twelfth Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management (KAW'99). Banff, Alberta, Canada, 16–21 October 1999. See also the PowerPoint slides [ppt].

  • Robert E. Kent (1999b). Conceptual Knowledge Markup Language: An Introduction. In Netnomics: Economic research and electronic networking. Special Issue on Information and Communication Middleware.

  • Robert E. Kent (2000). The Information Flow Foundation for Conceptual Knowledge Organization. In: Dynamism and Stability in Knowledge Organization. Proceedings of the Sixth International ISKO Conference. Advances in Knowledge Organization 7 (2000) 111–117. Ergon Verlag, Würzburg. See also the PowerPoint presentation at ISKO’6.

  • Robert E. Kent (2001a). The IFF Foundation Ontology. Starter document for the Standard Upper Ontology (SUO).

  • Robert E. Kent (2001b). The IFF Category Theory Ontology. PowerPoint presentation for the IJCAI 2001 Workshop on the IEEE Standard Upper Ontology, 6 August 2001.

  • Robert E. Kent (2002a). The IFF Model Theory (meta) Ontology. Submitted for approval as a starter document for the Standard Upper Ontology (SUO).

  • Robert E. Kent (2002b). Distributed Conceptual Structures [ps], [pdf]. In: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Relational Methods in Computer Science (RelMiCS 6). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2561. Springer, Berlin.

  • Robert E. Kent (2002c). The IFF Approach to Semantic Integration. PowerPoint presentation at the Boeing Mini-Workshop on Semantic Integration, 7 November 2002.

  • Robert E. Kent (2002d). The IFF Ontology (meta) Ontology. To be submitted for approval as a starter document for the Standard Upper Ontology (SUO).

  • Robert E. Kent (2003a). The IFF Foundation for Ontological Knowledge Organization. In: Knowledge Organization and Classification in International Information Retrieval. Cataloging and Classification Quarterly. The Haworth Press Inc., Binghamton, New York.

  • Robert E. Kent (2003b). Semantic Integration in the IFF. Accepted paper for the Semantic Integration Workshop (SI 2003) of the 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2003).

  • Robert E. Kent (2004a). The Information Flow Framework: A Descriptive Category Metatheory [DVI], [PDF]. Preprint. Submitted for the Proceedings of the International Category Theory Conference (CT04), July 18–24, 2004, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

  • Robert E. Kent (2004b). Semantic Integration in the Information Flow Framework. Dagstuhl Workshop on Semantic Interoperability and Integration. Sept 19–24, 2004, Seminar Nº 04391.

  • Robert E. Kent (2005a). Conceptua: Institutions in a Topos. This document gives the theory of institutions in a topos. By varying the base topos, we get institutions that represent fuzzy sets, temporal structures, etc. Preprint.

  • Robert E. Kent (2005b). The Lattice of Theories Construction. The document axiomatizes the lattice of theories construction in an institution. Preprint.

  • Robert E. Kent (2005c). The IFF Metashell. This document will eventually be posted as a new document on the SUO IFF website. The IFF metashell realizes the new IFF architecture by allowing the natural part to conform to the categorical design principle (all axiomatization is atomic).

  • Robert E. Kent (2005d). The IFF Core (meta) Ontology (IFF-CORE). This document will eventually be posted as a new version of the IFF-CORE on the SUO IFF website. This new version of the IFF-CORE, which conforms to the categorical design principle and realizes the new IFF architecture, follows adjunctive style axiomatization.

  • Robert E. Kent (2005e). The IFF Category Theory (meta) Ontology (IFF-CAT). This document will eventually be posted as a new version of the IFF-CAT on the SUO IFF website. This new version of the IFF-CAT, which conforms to the categorical design principle and realizes the new IFF architecture, follows adjunctive style axiomatization.

  • Robert E. Kent (2005f). The IFF Syntax. This document specifies the IFF grammar in EBNF. The IFF grammar, which describes the core syntax of the IFF, applies to all IFF code.

  • Robert E. Kent (2005g). Architecture, Portals and Implementation of the IFF. Although remaining true to the IFF design philosophy, the new IFF architecture fits closer to intutions of the working category theorist. This document describes the new IFF architecture.

  • Robert E. Kent (2005h). The Information Flow Framework (IFF). PowerPoint presentation at LISTIC, Laboratoire d’Informatique, Systèmes, Traitement de l’Information et de la Connaissance.

  • Robert E. Kent (2006). The Information Flow Framework: New Architecture.  International Category Theory Conference,  CT 2006, White Point, Nova Scotia, June 25 – July 1, 2006.

  • Robert E. Kent (2008). The Institutional Approach. Invited book chapter [ZIP] © Springer-Verlag. To appear in: TAO – Theory and Applications of Ontology, Volume 2: The Information-Science Stance, Michael Healy, Achilles Kameas, Roberto Poli, eds. Springer, forthcoming.

  • Robert E. Kent (2009). System Consequence [paper], [presentation], [presentation overview]. To appear in the Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of Conceptual Structures (ICCS'09), Conceptual Structures: Leveraging Semantic Technologies, 26–31 July 2009, Moscow, Russia. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Vol. 5662, 2009, Springer.