Corporate knowledge models are an effective means to support knowledge and information sharing. They are one of the most attractive themes in applied research nowadays, as well as in the business world, as many of the theoretical results have already proven their pratical applicability for application fields like data warehouse construction.

The emergence of new scientific results and pratical applications in this domain has fostered an interest in developing new tools, also for fields like engineering, medicine and financial systems. The Formal Ontologies Meet Industry (FOMI) workshop stimulates this process by providing a framework for presenting and discussing new innovative approaches.

The articles presented in the following have been kindly made available by FOMI; they were presented at FOMI 2005. More articles from FOMI 2005 and information on this year's FOMI workshop will be presented on KnowledgeBoard in the near future.

Dr. Waralak Vongdoiwang:
An Approach to Converting a Text Description to an Object Model using Ontologies.

Yoshinobu Kitamura, Yusuke Koji and Riichiro Mizoguchi:
An Ontological Model of Device Function and Its Deployment for Engineering Knowledge Sharing.

Chumki Basua et alii: Automated Knowledge Discovery System (AKDS):
A Business Case Study in Ontology Development and Use.

Pascal Hitzler, Rudi Studer, York Sure:
Description Logic Programs: A Practical Choice For the Modelling of Ontologies.

Hatem Ben Staet alii:
From ontology concepts to project memory.