Thomas E. Bittner
PhD
Associate Professor
Areas of Specialization and Current Research
Formal and Applied Ontology, Ontology of Space, Time and Spatial Entities, Spatio-Temporal Reasoning, Bio-Medical Ontology.
Contact Information
109 Park Hall
UB North Campus
Buffalo NY, 14260-4150
Phone: (716) 645-5149
Fax: (716) 645-6139
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Education
Ph.D., Technical University of Vienna
Areas of Specialization and Current Research
Formal and Applied Ontology, Ontology of Space, Time and Spatial Entities, Spatio-Temporal Reasoning, Bio-Medical Ontology.
Courses
- Logic
- Spatial Ontology
Selected Publications
Journal Publications:
- Bittner, T., 2019, On the computational realization of Formal Ontologies, Applied Ontology, (in print) Download pdf.
- Bittner, T., 2018, Formal ontology of space, time, and physical entities in Classical Mechanics, Applied Ontology 13, 135 – 179. Download pdf.
- Bittner, T., 2017, Vague distance predicates, Geoinfomatica 21, 2, 209-229. Download pdf.
In Edited Book:
- Bittner, T., Is There a Quantum Geography?, 2019, In T. Tambassi (ed.) The Philosophy of GIS, Springer Geography, 209 – 239. Download pdf.
In Refereed Conference Proceedings ...
- Bittner, T., 2019, Why classificatory information of geographic regions is quantum information, Spatial Information Theory, International Conference, COSIT 2019 Download pdf.
- Bittner, T., 2017, Quantum Geography, Spatial Information Theory, International Conference, COSIT 2017
- Bittner, T., Bona, J. and Ceusters, W., 2016, Ontologies of Dynamical Systems and Verifiable Ontology-based Computation: Towards a Haskell-based Implementation of Referent Tracking. In Kuhn W., International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS2016), Proceedings. IOS Press.