[iaoa-general] KODeP workshop @ JOWO + FOIS 2018

[Kutz Oliver]

**Ontology for Heterogeneous Knowledge in Design and Planning**
https://kodepjowo.wordpress.com/
Cape Town, South Africa, 19-21 September 2018.

Part of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2018),
a pool of satellite events held at the 10th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2018).

Submission deadline: June 25, 2018


The aim of KODeP is to explore the connections between applied ontology and the theory-in-action (Schon, 1983; Gergen, Zielke, 2006; Dick, et al. 2009) space of design (e.g. design theory) and planning (e.g. multi-agent planning, organizational theory).The workshop focuses on the fields of architecture and engineering where applied ontology methodologies can help to develop a cognitive framework for the theory-in-action approach by disambiguating the terminology and allowing the principled management of complex knowledge.
Ontology, understood as the general theory of types of entities and relations making up a domain of inquiry, provides a solid foundation for modeling and using heterogeneous knowledge. Our purpose is to solicit works that elicit and highlight the richness of possibilities that the ontological approach makes accessible in design and in planning processes.
In the last few years a variety of research results have outlined that design ontology (architecture, engineering) and space ontology (environment, places and regions as life settlements) are structurally and organizationally linked. In this vein, efforts to develop sound operational ontologies in these domains (e.g. individual and/or social, artificial and/or natural) should be compared and integrated to produce effective and multi-perspective theory-in-action frames.


*Topics*

Important relations arise between foundational and applied ontologies and the above cited knowledge domains.
Among the other issues relevant to the FOIS conference the workshop pays attention to the following ones:

-   the relation between natural objects/artifacts in dealing with complex environmental systems; space and time interaction in dealing with the making of a city or of a design object;
-   the relation among cognition, natural and/or formal language, and semantics in complex agent-based systems like environmental/urban systems;
-   ontology of mental agency as support to decision processes in design and planning;
-   knowledge management; ontology in design;
-   ontologies in specific science or professional domains;
-   ontologies in architecture, engineering, and for the general organization of actual space.

*Information*

Please submit your paper through easychair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jowo2018

Papers are intended to be at least five pages long (with around 2500 characters, or 380-400 words, per page)

All submissions must be in pdf format and must follow the IOS Press FOIS formatting guidelines, available at https://goo.gl/qkTpT7.

*Important dates*

June 25, 2018 –  submission deadline for papers
July 20, 2018 – acceptance notification to authors
August 15, 2018 – camera ready versions due


The organizers encourage the submission of interdisciplinary research

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Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC CNR
Trento, Italy