Two papers have been presented (and accepted) to the European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE) to be held in Romania next May.

The two accepted papers are:

• Functional Modeling for Risk Analysis
• Merging functional and conceptual ontologies

The first paper is related to the use of funcional modeling techniques (like multilevel flow modeling) to evaluate potential risks in a continuous process (such as a chemical plant)

The second paper presents a new architecture composed of two ontologies. The first one is a conceptual (strutural) ontology that describes what the system has and the second one is a functional ontology that describes what the system can do. Both ontologies are related by a series of common elements.