Project Publications
Forthcoming
Jansen L, Smith B, “Categorias em ontologias de alto nível: Revisitando os fundamentos aristotélicos” in: Ontologia Aplicada com Barry Smith e colegas, hg.von Mauricio B. Almeida, Curitiba: CRV Editora 2026.
Yargan D, Jansen L, “Representing the Conceptual Design Process in Engineering using IAO and OBI”, in: Proceedings of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO) – Episode XI: The Sicilian Summer under the Etna, co-located with the 15th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2025), September 8-9, 2025, Catania, Italy.
Jansen L, Yargan D, “Triggers and Bases: Extending BFO to Represent the Pahl–Beitz Framework for Working Principles” in: Proceedings of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO) – Episode XI: The Sicilian Summer under the Etna, co-located with the 15th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2025), September 8-9, 2025, Catania, Italy.
Jansen L, “Wissenschaftliches Modellieren: Jenseits von Wahrheit und Lüge”, in: Brixner Theologisches Jahrbuch 16 (2025).
2025
Yargan D, Jansen L, “Building a Biomimetics Core Ontology using OBO Foundry Principles” in: Sanju Tiwari, Maria Keet (Hg.), Proceedings of the Satellite Events of the 15th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2025): Ontology Showcase, Demonstrations, and Early Career Symposium Catania, Italy, September 10-12, 2025.
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4111/SC_Paper_2.pdf
Yargan D, Jansen L. Terminological Resources for Biologically Inspired Design and Biomimetics: Evaluation of the Potential for Ontology Reuse. Biomimetics. 2025; 10(1):39. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics10010039
Jansen L, Smith B, “Categories in Top-Level Ontologies: Revisiting the Aristotelian Background”, in: Advances in Knowledge Representation 5:3 (2025) 1-31.
https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/advances-kr/article/view/58262
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17209710
Backup on Philpapers
2024
Jansen L, What is Abstraction in Biomimetics? In Proceedings of The Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO)—EpisodeX: The Tukker Zomer of Ontology, and Satellite Events Co-Located with the 14th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2024), Enschede, The Netherlands, 15–19 July 2024, https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3882/caos8-5.pdf.
Yargan D, Jansen L, Does Biomimetics Require a Unified Account of Function? In Proceedings of The Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO)—EpisodeX: The Tukker Zomer of Ontology, and Satellite Events Co-Located with the 14th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2024), Enschede, The Netherlands, 15–19 July 2024, https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3882/foust-4.pdf.
2023
van Nieuwenhoven RW, Drack M, Gebeshuber IC. 2023. Engineered Materials: Bioinspired “Good Enough” versus Maximized Performance. Advanced Functional Materials 2023:2307127 (1-9). https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202307127
Drack M, Jansen L (2023) “Biomimetics Analyzed: Examples from an Epistemological and Ontological Perspective”, in: Meder F, Hunt A, Margheri L, Mura A, Mazzolai B (eds), Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. 12th International Conference, Living Machines 2023, Genoa, Italy, July 10–13, 2023, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, book series, LNAI 14158), Cham: Springer 2023, 273–289.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39504-8_19
Archived PDF-version
Drack M, Jansen L (2023) “Auf dem Weg zu einem theoretischen Fundament der Bionik”, in: Kesel AB, Löffler BS (eds), Bionik: Patente aus der Natur. Tagungsbeiträge, 10. Bremer Bionik-Kongress, Hochschule Bremen, 12.-13. Mai 2023, Bremen: Bionik-Innovations-Centrum, 169-177. Archived PDF-version
2022
Drack M, Betz O (2022) A technomorphic conceptualisation of biological ‘constructions’ and their evolution. Vertebrate Zoology 72: 839–855. https://doi.org/10.3897/vz.72.e86968
Drack M, Jansen L (2022) Philosophy of Biomimetics. The Reasoner 16:8 (Nov. 2022), 67-68, https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/thereasoner/files/2022/11/TheReasoner-168.pdf#page=3.
Selected Previous Publications Relevant for Our Project
De Bruyn G, Betz O, Nebelsick JH, Drack M, Limpinsel M (2016) Making life “visible”: Organism concepts in biology and architecture as the basis for an interdisciplinary synopsis of constructional biomimetics. In: Knippers J, Nickel KG, Speck T (eds) Biomimetic research for architecture and building construction. Biological design and integrative structures. Cham: Springer, 379–394.
Drack M, Pouvreau D (2015) On the history of Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s “general systemology”, and on its relationship to cybernetics – Part III: Convergences and divergences. International Journal of General Systems 44:523–571.
Drack M, Betz O (2017) The basis of theory building in biology lies in the organism concept. Organisms – Journal of Biological Sciences 1: 69–82.
Drack M, Betz O, Nebelsick JH (2020) Konstruktionslehre, Bionik und phylogenetische Aspekte. In: Werneburg I, Betz O (eds) Phylogenie, Funktionsmorphologie und Bionik – 60. Phylogenetischen Symposium in Tübingen. Tübingen: Scidinge Hall, 27–38.
Drack M, Gebeshuber IC (2013) Comment on “Innovation through imitation: biomimetic, bioinspired and biokleptic research” by A. E. Rawlings, J. P. Bramble and S. S. Staniland, Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 6675. Soft Matter 9:2338–2340.
Drack M, Limpinsel M, de Bruyn G, Nebelsick JH, Betz O (2018) Towards a theoretical clarification of biomimetics using conceptual tools from engineering design. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics 13:016007.
Gebeshuber IC, Drack M (2016) Biomimetics: biomimetics in nanotechnology. In: Kharisov BI, Kharissova OV, Ortiz-Mendez U (eds) CRC concise encyclopedia of nanotechnology. Boca Raton (FL): CRC Press, 37–45.
Gebeshuber IC, Gruber P, Drack M (2009) A gaze into the crystal ball – biomimetics in the year 2059. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science 223: 2899–2918.
Gebeshuber IC, Gruber P, Drack M (2010) Nanobioconvergence. In: Guston DH (ed) Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society, vol. 2. Thousand Oaks (CA): Sage, 454–456.
Jansen L (2007) Tendencies and other realizables in medical information sciences. The Monist 90:534–555.
Jansen L (2018) Functions, malfunctioning, and negative causation. In: Christian A, Hommen D, Retzlaff N, Schurz G (eds) Philosophy of science. Between the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. Cham: Springer, 117–135.
Jansen L, Smith B (eds) (2008) Biomedizinische Ontologie: Wissen strukturieren für den Informatik-Einsatz. Zürich: VDF.
Pouvreau D, Drack M (2007) On the history of Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s “general systemology”, and on its relationship to cybernetics – Part I: elements on the origins and genesis of Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s “general systemology”. International Journal of General Systems 36:281–337.