Researchers in various fields such as artificial intelligence, formal and computational linguistics, biomedical informatics, conceptual modeling, knowledge engineering and information retrieval have come to realize that a solid foundation for their research calls for serious work in ontology, understood as the theory of common types of entities and relationships forming domain of each investigation. Tools formal ontology address precisely these needs, but the real effort needed to implement such philosophical tools to the domain of information systems. Reciprocal, research in information science raises specific ontological questions which call for further philosophical inquiry. Some areas we publish in: -Biomedicine -Oncology artificial intelligence -Database and information systems engineering-Maritime -Nanotechnology -Geoengineering -All aspects of physics -E-governance -E-commerce -The economics of knowledge -Urban Study -Arms Control -Understand and respond to terrorism -Medical informatics Computer-Science