[iaoa-general] Call for Papers - 3rd Workshop on Foundational Ontology - FOUST at JOWO 2019

[Kutz Oliver]

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3rd Workshop on Foundational Ontology (FOUST III)
http://foust.inf.unibz.it/

Co-located with the Joint Ontology Workshops, JOWO-2019, Graz, Austria
https://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2019/

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Important dates:
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Submission deadline: 31st May 2019

Workshop date: 23-25 September 2019 @JOWO 2019 (exact date TBD)

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Workshop Topics
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Foundational ontologies are attempts to systematise those categories of thought or reality which are common to all or almost all subject-matters. Commonly considered examples of such categories include 'object', 'quality', 'function', 'role', 'process', 'event', 'time', and 'place'. Amongst existing foundational ontologies, there is both a substantial measure of agreement and some dramatic disagreements. There is currently no uniform consensus concerning how a foundational ontology should be organised, how far its 'reach' should be (e.g., is the distinction between physical and non-physical entities sufficiently fundamental to be included here?), and even what role it should play in relation to more specialised domain ontologies. The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers to present work on specific foundational ontologies as well as foundational ontologies in general and their relations to each other and to the wider ontological enterprise.

Relevant topics include: 

- Changes to existing foundational ontologies / extension by new modules
- Any specific category or topic usually covered by foundational ontology (e.g., functions, roles, time, mereology)
- Theoretical results about specific foundational ontologies (e.g., consistency proof of significant parts of an existing foundational ontology) 
- Comparison and alignments of foundational ontologies
- Relationship between foundational ontologies and domain ontologies
- Applications of foundational ontologies in AI, Semantic Web, Linguistics, etc. 


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Submissions
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We encourage different types of contribution:

Full research paper:

Submitted papers must not exceed 10 pages (including the bibliography) and must include an abstract of no more than 300 words. 

Short paper: 

Submitted papers must not exceed 6 pages (including the bibliography) and must include an abstract of no more than 300 words.

Papers should be submitted non-anonymously in PDF format following IOS Press formatting guidelines, which can be found at

http://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors/

The Easychair submission page can be found at 

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jowo2019

(select the track “3rd Workshop on Foundational Ontology")


All contributions to JOWO workshops will be published in a joint CEUR proceedings volume, compare

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2050/  for JOWO 2017 
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2205/  for JOWO 2018

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Contact
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Workshop website: http://foust.inf.unibz.it/foust3/

E-mail:  foustworkshop at gmail.com

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Venue
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The FOUST III workshop will be co-located with the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2019) to be held in Graz, Austria, 23-25 September 2019.

http://iaoa.org/jowo/2019/

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Workshop organizers
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Antony Galton  - University of Exeter
Stefano Borgo - Laboratory of Applied Ontology, Trento, Italy
Oliver Kutz - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Frank Loebe - University of Leipzig, Germany
Fabian Neuhaus - Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany 

PC members

Roberta Ferrario - Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies - CNR
Aldo Gangemi - Università di Bologna & CNR-ISTC	
Nicola Guarino - ISTC-CNR	
Laure Vieu - Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse	
Riichiro Mizoguchi - Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	
Barry Smith - SUNY Buffalo	
Maureen Donnelly - University at Buffalo	
Pierre Grenon - University College London