Michael Gruninger is a Canadian computer scientist and Professor of Industrial Engineering at the

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, known for his work on

Ontologies In information science, an ontology encompasses a representation, formal naming, and definitions of the categories, properties, and relations between the concepts, data, or entities that pertain to one, many, or all domains of discourse. More ...

in information science. particularly with the

Process Specification Language The Process Specification Language (PSL) is a set of logic terms used to describe processes. The logic terms are specified in an ontology that provides a formal description of the components and their relationships that make up a process. The o ...

, and in

enterprise modelling Enterprise modelling is the abstract representation, description and definition of the structure, processes, information and resources of an identifiable business, government body, or other large organization. It deals with the process of underst ...

on the

TOVE Project The TOVE project ("Toronto Virtual Enterprise") is a project to develop an ontology (information science), ontological framework for enterprise integration (EI) based on and suited for enterprise modeling.Terje Totland (1997)5.2.3 Toronto Virtual ...

with Mark S. Fox.

Biography

Gruninger studied

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and received his BA in 1987 at the

University of Alberta The University of Alberta (also known as U of A or UAlberta, ) is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta, and Henry Marshall Tory, t ...

, and his MA in 1989 at the

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, where in 2000 he also received his PhD with a thesis entitled "Logical foundations of shape-based object recognition." In 1993 Gruninger started as researcher at the Enterprise Integration Laboratory of the University of Toronto, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. From 2000 to 2005 he was researcher at the Institute for Systems Research at the

University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1856, UMD i ...

and a guest researcher at the Manufacturing Systems Integration Division of the

National Institute of Standards and Technology The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce whose mission is to promote American innovation and industrial competitiveness. NIST's activities are organized into Outline of p ...

(NIST). Since 2005 he has been a Professor of Industrial Engineering at the

, where he leads the Semantic Technologies Laboratory. Gruninger's research interests are in the field of "the design and formal characterization of theories in mathematical logic and their application to problems in manufacturing and enterprise engineering."Michael Gruninger
at Semantic Technologies Lab. Accessed October 10, 2013. Gruninger is President of the International Association of Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) and Editor-in-Chief of the Applied Ontology Journal.

Publications

Gruninger authored and co-authored numerous publications in his fields of expertise. A selection: * Grüninger, Michael, and Mark S. Fox. "Methodology for the Design and Evaluation of Ontologies." (1995). * Uschold, Mike, and Michael Gruninger. "Ontologies: Principles, methods and applications." Knowledge engineering review 11.2 (1996): 93-136. * Fox, Mark S., and Michael Gruninger. "Enterprise modeling." AI magazine 19.3 (1998): 109. * Gruninger, Michael, and Jintae Lee. "ONTOLOGY." Communications of the ACM 45.2 (2002): 39. * Uschold, Michael, and Michael Gruninger. "Ontologies and semantics for seamless connectivity." ACM SIGMod Record 33.4 (2004): 58-64.

References

External links

Michael Gruninger
at Semantic Technologies Lab. {{DEFAULTSORT:Gruninger, Michael Living people Canadian computer scientists Information systems researchers Enterprise modelling experts University of Alberta alumni University of Maryland, College Park faculty Academic staff of the University of Toronto Year of birth missing (living people)