[iaoa-general] New editors-in-chief at Applied Ontology: Message from IOS Press

[Mark A Musen]

IOS Press is pleased to announce that Dr. Roberta Ferrario and Prof. Michael Gruninger have accepted the appointment as new Editors-in-Chief of Applied Ontology. Previously Associate Editors of the journal, they will take over the editorship from Prof. Mark Musen and Dr. Nicola Guarino, who have run the journal successfully since its launch in 2005. The change in editorship will commence in January 2017 with Volume 11. Prof. Musen and Dr. Guarino will continue to support the journal as Founding Editors and assist the new Editors-in-Chief during the transition period.

Dr. Ferrario and Prof. Gruninger  bring an outstanding record of scholarship and professional service to Applied Ontology and will continue work on the development of the journal and the scientific community surrounding it, including cooperation with theInternational Association for Ontology and its Applications and important conferences in the field.

On behalf of IOS Press, the editorial board, authors, reviewers, and readers we wish to express gratitude to Prof. Musen and Dr. Guarino for their commitment during the first ten years of publishing Applied Ontology. Their hard work and devotion have made the journal the highly regarded publication it is today.

We look forward to advancing the journal further into the next decade under the leadership of Dr. Ferrario and Prof. Gruninger.

About the new Editors

Dr. Roberta Ferrario is a researcher in the Laboratory for Applied Ontology at the Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the Italian National Research Council in Trento, where she has worked since 2003.   After finishing her Ph.D. in Philosophy in a joint program between the Universities of Milan (Italy) and Strasbourg (France), she spent an academic year at the Suppes Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Science and Technology of Stanford University. Dr. Ferrario studies the ontology of mind, of organizations and of services. Recently, she has turned her attention to the ontology of socio-technical systems and on the integration of ontological and computer vision approaches. She is the author of more than 80 scientific publications.  Dr. Ferrario served as Assistant Editor of Applied Ontology from 2005 until 2014, and she has been Associate Editor since 2015.  Dr. Ferrario serves on the executive council of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications.


Prof. Michael Gruninger is an associate professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto, where he has been on the faculty since 2010.  He received his Ph.D. from the University of Alberta (Canada) in 2000, and he has worked in the area of formal ontology and its applications to industrial problems for the past twenty years. Prof. Gruninger has published over 90 peer-reviewed papers, including a seminal paper in the methodology of ontology design and evaluation.  His current research focuses on the design and formal characterization of theories in mathematical logic and their application to problems in manufacturing and enterprise engineering. Several of Prof. Gruninger's projects have been incorporated into international standards, including  the Process Specification Language (ISO 18629) and Common Logic (ISO 24707).  In 2015, Prof. Gruninger became a Fellow of the Vespucci Institute for the Advancement of Geographic Information Science.  Prof. Gruninger is currently President of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications.


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