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

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 ...

, known for his work on

Ontologies In computer science and information science, an ontology encompasses a representation, formal naming, and definition of the categories, properties, and relations between the concepts, data, and entities that substantiate one, many, or all domains ...

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 on the TOVE Project with

Mark S. Fox Mark Stephen Fox (born 1952) is a Canadian computer scientist, Professor of Industrial Engineering and Distinguished Professor of Urban Systems Engineering at the University of Toronto, known for the development of Constraint Directed Scheduling in ...

Biography

Gruninger studied

computer Science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includi ...

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 university, public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford,"A Gentleman of Strathcona – Alexande ...

, 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 land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of M ...

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 physical s ...

(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

. "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.

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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 University of Toronto faculty Year of birth missing (living people)