(Apologies for potential
cross-posting)
11th International Conference
on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2020)
September 14-17, 2020,
Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Update for deadline and
organisation of FOIS:
Responding to the current
health crisis, the new submission deadline has been set
to May
13.
Please note further:
– The organisation
team of FOIS 2020 is committed to publishing the FOIS
proceedings with IOS Press in 2020.
– FOIS will happen
as a face-to-face event in Bolzano when it is safe to
travel. Ideally, in September 2020 but otherwise at a later
date in 2021.
– Physical
attendance of authors of accepted papers at FOIS will be
optional.
See
announcement COVID-19 for future updates:
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DEFINITION AND SCOPE
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The advent of complex information
systems that rely on robust, coherent and formal
representations of their subject matter, has led to the
exploitation of ontological analysis and ontology-based
representation. The systematic study of such analysis and
representation is at the center of the modern discipline of
formal ontology, which is a general theory of the types of
entities and relations making up domains of interest.
Researchers in many domains engage
with formal ontology to provide a solid foundation for their
work. Common application areas include conceptual modeling,
database design, knowledge engineering and management,
software engineering, organizational modeling, artificial
intelligence, robotics, computational linguistics, the life
sciences, bioinformatics and scientific research in general,
geographic information science, information retrieval,
library and information science, and the Semantic Web.
The FOIS conference is a meeting
point for all researchers with an interest in formal
ontology. The conference encourages new high quality
submissions on both theoretical issues and concrete
applications. As in previous years, FOIS 2020 aims to be a
nexus of interdisciplinary research and communication.
FOIS is the flagship conference of
the International Association for Ontology and its
Applications (IAOA: http://iaoa.org/),
which is a non-profit organization promoting
interdisciplinary research and international collaboration
in formal ontology.
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FORMAT
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FOIS 2020 includes a number of
activities:
* FOIS conference (single track
program)
* workshops (in conjunction with
EKAW 2020 and ICBO 2020)
* tutorials (in conjunction with
EKAW 2020 and ICBO 2020)
* a young researchers symposium
* a demo and industry track
* an ontology show and tell
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Call for papers
* Paper Submission Deadline: 13
May 2020
* Notification: 20 July 2020
* Conference Dates (tentative):
14-17 September 2020
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SUBMISSIONS
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FOIS seeks full-length
high-quality papers on a wide range of topics. An ideal FOIS
paper will address both content-related ontological issues,
their formal representation, as well as their impact and
relevance for some aspect of information systems. Please
refer to the FOIS submissions page for submission details.
As usual, the FOIS proceedings will be published by IOS
Press.
Related activities, such as
workshops and tutorials, may specify different submission
formats, for example, short papers or posters. Please refer
to the relevant related activity page (forthcoming) for
submission and publication details.
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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Areas of particular interest to
FOIS include the following:
Foundational Issues
* Kinds of entities:
particulars/universals, continuants/occurrents,
abstracta/concreta, dependent entities/independent entities,
natural objects/artifacts
* Formal relations: parthood,
identity, connection, dependence, constitution, causality,
subsumption, instantiation
* Vagueness and granularity
* Space, time, and change
Methodological issues
* Top-level vs. domain-specific
ontologies
* Role of reference ontologies
* Ontology similarity, integration
and alignment
* Ontology modularity,
contextuality, and evolution
* Formal comparison among
ontologies
* Relationship with cognition,
language, semantics, context
* Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs
Domain-specific ontologies
* Ontology of physical reality
(matter, space, time, motion etc.)
* Ontology of biological reality
(organisms, genes, proteins, cells etc.)
* Ontology of mental reality and
agency (beliefs, intentions, emotions, perceptions,
cognition, etc.)
* Ontology of artifacts,
functions, capacities and roles
* Ontology of social reality
(institutions, organizations, norms, social relationships,
artistic expressions etc.)
Applications
* Ontology-driven information
systems design
* Ontological foundations for
conceptual modeling
* Knowledge management
* Qualitative modeling
* Computational linguistics
* Information retrieval
* Semantic Web
* Business modeling
* Ontologies and Machine Learning
* Ontologies and Explainable AI
* Ontologies for particular
scientific disciplines (biology, chemistry, geography,
physics, geoscience, cognitive sciences, linguistics etc.)
* Ontologies for engineering:
shape, form and function, artifacts, manufacturing, design,
architecture etc.
* Ontologies for the humanities:
arts, cultural studies, history, literature, philosophy,
etc.
* Ontologies for the social
sciences: economics, law, political science, anthropology,
archeology, etc.
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CONFERENCE ORGANISATION
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General Chair
* Roberta Ferrario (ISTC CNR,
Trento, Italy)
Program Chairs
* Boyan Brodaric (Geological
Survey of Canada, Canada)
* Fabian Neuhaus (Otto von
Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany)
Local Organization
* Oliver Kutz (Free University of
Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
* Nicolas Troquard (Free
University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
Publicity Chair
* Guendalina Righetti (Free
University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
* Maria Hedblom (Free University
of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
Proceedings Chair
* Megan Katsumi (University of
Toronto)
Workshop / Tutorial Chairs
* Torsten Hahmann (University of
Maine)
* Claudio Masolo (ISTC CNR,
Trento, Italy)
Ontology Show and Tell
* Michael Gruninger (University of
Toronto)
* Frank Loebe (University of
Leipzig)
Early Career Symposium
* Pawel Garbacz (John Paul II
Catholic University of Lublin)
* Selja Seppala (University
College Cork)
Demo and Industrial Track Chair
* Robert Hoehndorf (King Abdullah
University of Science and Technology)
* Amanda Vizedom (Credit Suisse)