Thomas E. Bittner
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Technical University of Vienna
Contact Information:
109 Park Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260-4150
Phone: (716) 645-0143
Email: bittner3@buffalo.edu
Personal Website: Thomas E. Bittner
Academia.edu: Thomas E. Bittner
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
- T Bittner, J Bona, W Ceusters, "Ontologies of Dynamical Systems and Verifiable Ontology-Based Computation", Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference, Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2016, 313-327.
- T Bittner, "Vagueness and the trade-off between the classification and delineation of geographic regions–an ontological analysis", International journal of Geographical information Science, 2011, 25 (5), 825-850.
- T. Bittner, "Vague size predicates" Applied Ontology 6 (4), 317-343.
- T. Bittner and M. Donnelly, "A Theory of Granular Parthood Based on Qualitative Cardinality and Size Measures," in B. Bennett and C. Fellbaum, eds., Proceedings of the fourth International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems, FOIS06, 2006, 65-76.
- T. Bittner and L. J. Goldberg, "The Qualitative and Time-Dependent Character of Spatial Relations in Biomedical Ontologies," in O. Bodenreider, ed., KR-MED 2006, Second International Workshop on Formal Biomedical Knowledge Representation, 2006, 47-56.