Director: Professor Mark S. Fox
New Research Centre: Centre for Social Services Engineering.
For the past thirty years, the Enterprise Integration Laboratory has investigated the use of Information Technology to create a business infrastructure enabling the dissemination of information, coordination of decisions, and management of actions to and among people and systems within the organization and outside of it.
EIL research explores the creation of Enterprise Integration concepts in a bi-directional manner, in that it is simultaneously theory and application driven; an underlying philosophy to this research is that solving real problems leads to breakthrough research. Our basic research has explored topics such as: Ontologies for Enterprise Modelling, Agent Architectures and Coorindation and Constraint-Directed Scheduling, and applied them to problems such as Supply Chain Management, Knowledge-Based Design and Enterprise Engineering.
Our current research focuses on Smart Cities with an emphasis on:
- Ontologies for the modelling and analysis of cities.
- Ontologies for Global City Indicators.
- Ontologies for the representation of 311 city knowledge.
- Reasoning architectures for the causal analysis of crowdsourced data.
- Incorporating the crowd in government decisions.
For information and papers on each of these topics, select the appropriate topics on the side bar.
Please go to http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca to access our publicly available ontologies.
Major Projects
- PolisGnosis Project: Ontologies for modelling, measuring and analysing city performance.
- iCity Transportation Planning Ontology Project
- TOVE Enterprise Modelling Project
Global City Indicator Ontologies Working Papers Series:
The following working papers define the Global City Indicator Ontologies. The goal is to provide a complete set of ontologies for representing the ISO 37120 City Indicators. Working papers will be posted for each indicator theme (e.g., Education, Innovation, Shelter, Transportation, etc.) as they are completed. Working papers are meant to be living documents that will be updated from time to time to include additions and modifications.
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- Fox, M.S., (2014), “An Education Ontology for Global City Indicators (ISO 37120)”, Working Paper, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto, Revised: 14 May 2015.
Download: GCI Education Ontology in OWL.
Download: ISO37120 Education Indicators Definitions in OWL.
Download: City of Toronto’s 2013 ISO37120 Education Indicators values in OWL.
- Fox, M.S., (2014), “An Education Ontology for Global City Indicators (ISO 37120)”, Working Paper, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto, Revised: 14 May 2015.
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- Komisar, A., and Fox, M.S., (2017), “An Energy Ontology for Global City Indicators (ISO 37120)”, Working Paper, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto. 30 May 2017.
Download OWL Ontologies:- Service Ontology: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/GCI/Energy/GCI-Service.owl
- Building Occupancy Ontology: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/GCI/Energy/GCI-BuildingOccupancy.owl
Download: ISO37120 Energy Indicators Definitions in OWL.
Download: City of Toronto’s 2013 ISO37120 Energy Indicators values in OWL.
- Komisar, A., and Fox, M.S., (2017), “An Energy Ontology for Global City Indicators (ISO 37120)”, Working Paper, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto. 30 May 2017.
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- Dahleh, D., and Fox, M.S., (2016), “An Environment Ontology for Global City Indicators (ISO 37120)”, Working Paper, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto. Revised 12 October 2016.
Download OWL Ontologies:- Pollution Ontology: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/GCI/Environment/Pollution.owl
- Species Ontology: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/GCI/Environment/Species.owl
- Sensor Ontology: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/GCI/Environment/Sensors.owl
Download: ISO37120 Environment Indicators Definitions in OWL.
Download: City of Toronto’s 2013 ISO37120 Environment Indicators values in OWL.
- Dahleh, D., and Fox, M.S., (2016), “An Environment Ontology for Global City Indicators (ISO 37120)”, Working Paper, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto. Revised 12 October 2016.
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- Wang, Z., and Fox, M.S., (2016), “A Finance Ontology for Global City Indicators (ISO 37120)”, Working Paper, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto.
Download: GCI Finance Ontology in OWL.
Download: ISO37120 Finance Indicators Definitions in OWL.
Download: City of Toronto’s 2013 ISO37120 Finance Indicators values in OWL.
- Wang, Z., and Fox, M.S., (2016), “A Finance Ontology for Global City Indicators (ISO 37120)”, Working Paper, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto.
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- Rauch, N. and Fox, M.S., (2017), “Fire and Emergency Ontology for Global City Indicators (ISO 37120)”, Working Paper, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto.
Download Ontologies:- Emergency Response Ontology in OWL.
- Fire Brigade Organization Ontology in OWL.
- Fire and Disaster Related Mortality Ontology in OWL.
Download: ISO37120 Fire and Emergency Indicators Definitions in OWL.
Download: City of Toronto’s 2013 ISO37120 Fire and Emergency Indicators values in OWL.
- Rauch, N. and Fox, M.S., (2017), “Fire and Emergency Ontology for Global City Indicators (ISO 37120)”, Working Paper, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto.
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- Fox, M.S., (2013), “A Foundation Ontology for Global City Indicators”, Working Paper, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto, Revised: 13 October 2017.
Download: GCI Foundation Ontology, version 2 in OWL.
- Fox, M.S., (2013), “A Foundation Ontology for Global City Indicators”, Working Paper, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto, Revised: 13 October 2017.
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- Falodi, J., and Fox, M.S., (2018), “A Healthcare Ontology for Global City Indicators (ISO 37120)“, Working Paper, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto, eil.utoronto.ca.
Download: GCI Health Ontology in OWL.
- Falodi, J., and Fox, M.S., (2018), “A Healthcare Ontology for Global City Indicators (ISO 37120)“, Working Paper, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto, eil.utoronto.ca.
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- Khazei, K., and Fox, M.S., (2017), “A Public Safety Ontology for Global City Indicators (ISO 37120)“, Working Paper, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto.
Download: GCI Public Safety Ontology in OWL.
Download: ISO37120 Public Safety Indicators Definitions in OWL.
Download: City of Toronto’s 2013 ISO37120 Public Safety Indicators values in OWL.
- Khazei, K., and Fox, M.S., (2017), “A Public Safety Ontology for Global City Indicators (ISO 37120)“, Working Paper, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto.
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- Abdulai, T., and Fox, M.S., (2017), “Recreation Ontology for Global City Indicators (ISO 37120)”, Working Paper, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto, Revised: 30 September 2017.
Download: GCI Recreation Ontology in OWL.
Download: ISO37120 Recreation Indicators Definitions in OWL.
Download: City of Toronto’s 2013 ISO37120 Recreation Indicators values in OWL.
- Abdulai, T., and Fox, M.S., (2017), “Recreation Ontology for Global City Indicators (ISO 37120)”, Working Paper, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto, Revised: 30 September 2017.
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- Wang, Y., and Fox, M.S., (2015), “A Shelter Ontology for Global City Indicators (ISO 37120)”, Working Paper, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto, Revised: 28 August 2015.
Download: GCI Shelter Ontology in OWL.
Download: ISO37120 Shelters Indicators Definitions in OWL.
Download: City of Toronto’s 2013 ISO37120 Shelters Indicators values in OWL.
- Wang, Y., and Fox, M.S., (2015), “A Shelter Ontology for Global City Indicators (ISO 37120)”, Working Paper, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto, Revised: 28 August 2015.
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- Sun, X., and Fox, M.S., (2020), “Solidwaste Ontology for Global City Indicators (ISO 37120)”, Working Paper, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto.
Download: GCI Solidwaste Ontology in OWL.
Download: ISO37120:2014 Solidwaste Indicators Definitions in OWL.
Download: City of Toronto’s 2013 ISO37120 Solidwaste Indicators values in OWL.
- Sun, X., and Fox, M.S., (2020), “Solidwaste Ontology for Global City Indicators (ISO 37120)”, Working Paper, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto.
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- Forde, A., and Fox, M.S., (2015), “A Telecommunication and Innovation Ontology for Global City Indicators (ISO 37120)”, Working Paper, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto, Revised: 13 August 2015.
Download: GCI Innovation Ontology in OWL.
Download: ISO37120 Innovation Indicators Definitions in OWL.
Download: City of Toronto’s 2013 ISO37120 Innovation Indicators values in OWL.
- Forde, A., and Fox, M.S., (2015), “A Telecommunication and Innovation Ontology for Global City Indicators (ISO 37120)”, Working Paper, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto, Revised: 13 August 2015.
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- Yousif, W., and Fox, M.S., (2018), “A Transportation Ontology for Global City Indicators (ISO 37120)”, Working Paper, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto, eil.utoronto.ca.
Download: GCI Transportation Ontology in OWL.
Download: ISO37120 Transportation Indicators Definitions in OWL.
Download: City of Toronto’s 2013 ISO37120 Transportation Indicators values in OWL.
- Yousif, W., and Fox, M.S., (2018), “A Transportation Ontology for Global City Indicators (ISO 37120)”, Working Paper, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto, eil.utoronto.ca.
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- Navalta, R., and Fox, M.S., (2019), “A Water and Sanitation Ontology for Global City Indicators (ISO 37120)”, Working Paper, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto.
Download: GCI Water and Sanitation Ontology in OWL.
Download: ISO37120 Water and Sanitation Indicators Definitions in OWL.
Download: City of Toronto’s 2013 ISO37120 Water and Sanitation Indicators values in OWL.
- Navalta, R., and Fox, M.S., (2019), “A Water and Sanitation Ontology for Global City Indicators (ISO 37120)”, Working Paper, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto.
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Latest Publications:
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- Wong, A., Fox, M.S. and Katsumi, M. (2024), “Semantically Interoperable Census Data: Unlocking the Semantics of Census Data Using Ontologies and Linked Data”, International Journal of Population Data Science, Vol. 9. No. 1.
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- Silva, T.H., and Fox, M.S. (2024), “Integrating social media data: Venues, groups and activities”, Expert Systems with Applications, Vol. 243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2023.122902
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- Rizk, M., Rosu, D., and Fox, M.S. (2024), “Semantic Computing for Organizational Effectiveness: From Organization Theory to Practice through Semantics-Based Modelling”, Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC2024) . pp. 89-93.
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- Keidar, N., Fox, M.S., Friedman, O., Grinberger, Y., Kirresh, T., Li, Y., Rosner Manor, Y., Rotman, D., Silverman, E. & Brail, S. (2023) “Progress in Placemaking”, Planning Theory & Practice, DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2023.2286131
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- Rizk, M., Fox, M.S. and Rosu, D. (2023), “Towards an Ontology of Task Dependence in Organizations”, Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management – KEOD. ISBN 978-989-758-671-2; ISSN 2184-3228, SciTePress, pages 96-107. DOI: 10.5220/0012238300003598
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- Rosu, D., Gajderowicz, B. & Fox, M. S. (2023), “Representing Goals, Needs and Outcomes in Social Work”, Ontologies for Services and Society, 9th Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2023).
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- Forde, A. N., & Fox, M. S. (2023), “An innovation ontology for idea forecasting and measurement”, Int. J. Industrial and Systems Engineering, 44(2).
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- Gao, Y., Wang, Q. & Fox, M. S. (2023), “EMO: An Ontology for Supporting the Management of Epidemic”, 2023 International Conference on Applied Physics and Computing.
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- Gao, Y., Wang, Q., Fox, M. S., & Qian, H. (2023), “A survey of epidemic management data models”, Health Informatics Journal, 29(2), 14604582231180226.
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- Silver, D., Adler, P., & Fox, M.S. (2022). Towards a Model of Urban Evolution—Part I: Context. Urban Science 6, no. 4: 87.
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- Fox, M.S., Silver, D., & Adler, P. (2022). Towards a Model of Urban Evolution: Part II: Formal Model. Urban Science, 6, 88.
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- Silver, D., Fox, M.S., & Adler, P. (2022). Towards a Model of Urban Evolution—Part III: Rules of Evolution. Urban Science, 6, 89.
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- Fox, M.S., Silver, D., Silva, T., & Zhang, X. (2022). Towards a Model of Urban Evolution Part IV: Evolutionary (Formetic) Distance—An Interpretation of Yelp Review Data. Urban Science, 6, 86.
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- Fox, M.S., Gajderowicz, B., Rosu, D., Turner, A. and Lyu, L. (2022), “An Ontological Approach To Analysing Social Service Provisioning”, Eighth IEEE International Smart Cities Conference 2022 (ISC2’2022), September 26-29, 2022, Paphos, Cyprus.
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- Gajderowicz, B., Rosu, D. and Fox, M.S., (2022), “Compass Event, Client, and Service Ontology: A Design Pattern for Social Services”, Eighth Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO’22), August 15-19, 2022, Jönköping University, Sweden.
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- Rosu, D., Gajderowicz, B. and Fox, M.S., (2022), “Compass Needs Ontology: A Design Pattern for Representing Needs in Social Work”, Eighth Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO’22), August 15-19, 2022, Jönköping University, Sweden.
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- Katsumi, M., Huang, T. and Fox, M.S., (2022), “Toward Requirements for an Ontology of Asset Management”, FOMI 2022: 12th International Workshop on Formal Ontologies meet Industry, CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
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- Gajderowicz, B., Rosu, D., & Fox, M.S. (2022), “Extracting Impact Model Narratives from Social Services’ Text”, In Text2Story – Fifth International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts, at 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2022) (pp. 55–65). CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
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- Gao, Y., Wang, Y., and Fox, M.S., (2022), “Use Cases and Competency Questions for the Management of Public Health Emergencies”, Technical Report, Urban Data Centre, School of Cities, March 3, 2021.
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- Fox, M. S. (2021). An ontology engineering approach to measuring city education system performance. Expert Systems with Applications, 186.
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- Silva, T.H., and Fox, M.S., (2021), “Towards Interoperability of Social Media: Venue Matching by Categories“, Proceedings of the 14th Seminar on Ontology Research in Brazil – ONTOBRAS 2021.
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- Fox, M.S., and Ruff, K., (2021), “CIDS: An Ontology for Representing Social and Environmental Impact“, in Proceedings of the Workshop on Ontologies for the Behavioural and Social Sciences, September 18, 2021, Bolzano, Italy.
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- Katsumi, M., and Fox, M.S., (2021), “A Logical Design Pattern for Change Over Time: Applications in Transportation Planning“, in Advances in Pattern-Based Ontology Engineering, (pp. 68-88). IOS Press./li>
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- Williams, J., Fox, M.S., and Easterbrook, S., (2020), “A Constraint-Based Decision Support System for Capacity Planning in Interdependent Evolving Urban Systems“, in The City and Complexity – Life, Design and Commerce in the Built Environment, R. Lastman (Ed.), AMPS Proceedings Series 19.1 ISSN 2398-9467.
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- Katsumi, M. and Fox, M.S., (2020), “Towards an International Standard for Transportation Planning Data”, Canadian Transport Research Forum, Montreal.
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- Katsumi, M. and Fox, M.S., (2020), “iCity Transportation Planning Suite of Ontologies”, Technical Report, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto, eil.utoronto.ca.