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10th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information
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September 17-21, 2018, Cape Town, South Africa<br class="">
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DEFINITION AND SCOPE<br class="">
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The advent of complex information systems which rely on
robust, coherent and formal representations of their subject
matter, led in the last 25 years to the exploitation of
ontological analysis and ontology-based representation. The
systematic study of such representations, their axiomatics,
their corresponding reasoning techniques and their relations
to cognition and reality, are at the center of the modern
discipline of formal ontology.<br class="">
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Formal ontology is now a research focus in such diverse
domains as conceptual modeling, database design, knowledge
engineering, software engineering, organizational modeling,
artificial intelligence, robotics, computational linguistics,
the life sciences, bioinformatics, geographic information
science, information retrieval, and the Semantic Web.
Researchers in all these areas increasingly recognize the need
for serious engagement with ontology, understood as a general
theory of the types of entities and relations making up their
respective domains of enquiry, to provide a solid foundation
for their work.<br class="">
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The FOIS conference is a meeting point for researchers from
all disciplines with an interest in formal ontology. The
conference encourages submission of new and high quality
articles on both theoretical issues and concrete applications.
As in previous years, FOIS 2018 is intended as a nexus of
interdisciplinary research and communication.<br class="">
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FOIS is the flagship conference of the International
Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA, website: <a
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which is a non-profit organization aiming to promote
interdisciplinary research and international collaboration at
the intersection of philosophical ontology, linguistics,
logic, cognitive science, and computer science, as well as in
the applications of ontological analysis to conceptual
modeling, knowledge engineering, knowledge management,
information-systems development, library and information
science, scientific research, and semantic technologies in
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FORMAT<br class="">
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FOIS 2018 includes a number of additional facets:<br class="">
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+ an open call for workshops,<br class="">
+ an open call for tutorials,<br class="">
+ a young researchers symposium,<br class="">
+ a demo and industry track<br class="">
+ an ontology competition<br class="">
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SCOPE OF FOIS - TOPICS OF INTEREST<br class="">
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We seek high-quality papers on a wide range of topics.
Concerning scope, an ideal FOIS paper will address both
content-related ontological issues and their formal modeling,
as well as their impact and relevance for some aspects of
information systems.<br class="">
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Areas of particular interest to the conference include the
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Foundational Issues<br class="">
* Kinds of entities: particulars/universals,
continuants/occurrents, abstracta/concreta, dependent
entities/independent entities, natural objects/artifacts<br
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* Formal relations: parthood, identity, connection,
dependence, constitution, causality, subsumption,
instantiation<br class="">
* Vagueness and granularity<br class="">
* Space, time, and change<br class="">
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Methodological issues<br class="">
* Top-level vs. domain-specific ontologies<br class="">
* Role of reference ontologies<br class="">
* Ontology integration and alignment<br class="">
* Formal comparison among ontologies<br class="">
* Relationship with cognition, language, semantics, context<br
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Domain-specific ontologies<br class="">
* Ontology of physical reality (matter, space, time, motion
etc.)<br class="">
* Ontology of biological reality (organisms, genes, proteins,
cells etc.)<br class="">
* Ontology of mental reality and agency (beliefs, intentions,
emotions, perceptions etc.)<br class="">
* Ontology of artifacts, functions, capacities and roles<br
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* Ontology of social reality (institutions, organizations,
norms, social relationships, artistic expressions etc.)<br
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Applications:<br class="">
* Ontology-driven information systems design<br class="">
* Ontological foundations for conceptual modeling<br class="">
* Knowledge management<br class="">
* Qualitative modeling<br class="">
* Computational linguistics<br class="">
* Information retrieval<br class="">
* Semantic Web, Web services<br class="">
* Business modeling<br class="">
* Ontologies for particular scientific disciplines (biology,
chemistry, geography, physics, cognitive sciences, linguistics
etc.)<br class="">
* Ontologies for engineering: shape, form and function,
artifacts, manufacturing, design, architecture etc.<br
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* Ontologies for the humanities: arts, cultural studies,
history, law, literature, philosophy etc.<br class="">
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IMPORTANT DATES<br class="">
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* Call for papers<br class="">
Paper Submission Deadline: 13 April 2018<br class="">
Notification: 30 May 2018<br class="">
Camera-ready papers: 24 June 2018<br class="">
Conference Dates: 17-21 September 2018<br class="">
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* Call for workshop/tutorial<br class="">
Proposal Submission: 2 March 2018<br class="">
Notification: 15 March 2018<br class="">
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As usual, the FOIS proceedings will be published in book form
by a prominent publisher. Furthermore, the papers will be
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CONFERENCE ORGANISATION<br class="">
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General Chair:<br class="">
Oliver Kutz (KRDB, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)<br
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Program Chairs:<br class="">
Stefano Borgo (Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), ISTC
CNR, Trento, Italy)<br class="">
Pascal Hitzler (Data Semantics (DaSe) Laboratory, Wright State
University, USA)<br class="">
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Local Organization:<br class="">
Maria Keet (University of Cape Town, South Africa) </div>
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