[iaoa-general] [blog] Looking back at FOIS and JOWO 2016 - key information and links

[Frank Loebe]

Dear IAOA members and followers,

please find below a plain-text version of a recent post [A] to the IAOA 
Blog, regarding the FOIS conference and Joint Ontology Workshops held in 
early July 2016. Among other aspects, links to the open access 
proceedings are included.

Best regards,
Frank Loebe

[A] http://www.iaoa.org/iaoablog.php?id=5380693447473639548


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Looking back at FOIS and JOWO 2016 - key information and links


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The Ninth International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information 
Systems (FOIS 2016) [1] was held in Annecy, France, from July 6 to 9, 
2016, in co-location with the 22nd International Conference on 
Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2016).

More than 70 participants attended the conference, which received 81 
submissions from 29 countries and all populated continents. The 
presentations of the 25 accepted papers (ca. 31%) covered a wide range 
of topics, including foundations, space, time and change, cognition, 
language and semantics, empiricism and measurement, ontology of 
engineering, biomedical ontologies and ontology of social reality.

The presentations, together with the talks of the four invited speakers 
(Gilberto Câmara, Fabien Gandon, Friederike Moltmann, Stephen Mumford) 
were followed by very lively discussions. The PC Chairs of the ninth 
edition have been Roberta Ferrario and Werner Kuhn, while the General 
Chair was Giancarlo Guizzardi.

The proceedings of the conference have been published on open access as 
volume 283 of the Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications 
(FAIA) series by IOS Press. They are available at [2], itself linked at 
[3]. The presentations are also available, at [4].

The conference included three satellite activities: Demonstration Track 
(3 presentations), Early Career Symposium (5 presentations and posters) 
and Formal Ontology Competition (3 presentations). The Chairs of these 
activities were Frank Loebe (Demo Track), Adrien Barton, Stefano Borgo 
and Jean-Rémi Bourguet (ECS), and Fabian Neuhaus (Competition).

The best paper award was won by Claudio Masolo with the paper 
"Observations and their Explanations", while the winners of the Formal 
Ontology Competition were Niels Grewe, Ludger Jansen and Barry Smith 
with the work "Permanent Generic Relatedness and Silent Change".


Moreover, the main conference was preceded by the second edition of the 
Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2016) [5], which combined four 
ontology-centered workshops, running in parallel:

   * CAOS (First International Workshop on Cognition and Ontologies)
   * OntoCom (Fourth International Workshop on Ontologies and Conceptual 
Modeling)
   * NSWO (New Standards for the Working Ontologist)
   * WOMoCOE (International Workshop on Ontology Modularity, 
Contextuality and Evolution)

Oliver Kutz and Sergio de Cesare were the Workshop Chairs of JOWO 2016, 
which included very exciting presentations, both of accepted papers and 
keynotes by Brandon Bennett, Jérôme Euzenat, and Gem Stapleton. The 
proceedings of the workshops and of the works presented during the 
satellite activities have been published as CEUR volume 1660 [6].


All information and material can be found at the FOIS 2016 Website [1] 
and the JOWO 2016 Website [5], respectively.


[1] FOIS 2016 Website
     http://www.iaoa.org/fois2016/

[2] FOIS 2016 Proceedings, open access, at the IOS Press website
 
http://ebooks.iospress.nl/volume/formal-ontology-in-information-systems-proceedings-of-the-9th-international-conference-fois-2016

[3] Proceedings page at the FOIS 2016 Website
     http://www.iaoa.org/fois2016/index.php?n=Main.OnlineProceedings

[4] Presentations page at the FOIS 2016 Website
     http://www.iaoa.org/fois2016/index.php?n=Main.Presentations

[5] JOWO 2016 Website
     http://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2016/

[6] JOWO 2016 Proceedings, including FOIS Satellite Events
     http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1660/


< Thanks to Roberta Ferrario for preparing this post, Frank Loebe made 
minor edits >