[iaoa-swao] FOIS 2018 Industry Track: Call for Industry Demonstrations and Papers – Deadline extended to 9 July

[Mike Bennett]

FOIS 2018 Industry Track: Call for Industry Demonstrations and Papers – 
Deadline extended to 9 July

We invite submissions from industry on the industrial application of 
ontologies and semantic technology at this year’s 10th International 
Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2018); please 
see http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za/ and the Demonstrations and Industry 
Track page at http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za/?page_id=359
Contributions from industry may take the form of demonstrations or 
formal papers, or a combination of the two. Papers will be published in 
the proceedings for the Workshop component of FOIS, the Joint Ontology 
WOrkshops (JOWO 2018). Please see the JOWO page at 
http://www.iaoa.org/jowo2018/

Formal papers and demonstrations should be related to the topics of 
interest of the main FOIS conference. The scope for papers and 
demonstrations includes software for the ontology lifecycle as well as 
ontology-based software, for example:
·    Computational environments and prototypes for ontological engineering
·    Practical ontology projects
·    Advances in applying ontologies and lessons learned
·    Late-breaking results of innovative uses of ontology-based and/or 
ontology engineering techniques
·    Use of ontology in industrial and business applications
·    Ontological representations of software engineering techniques and 
frameworks
·    Industry and enterprise ontologies and ontology standards e.g. 
finance, biomedical
·    Regulatory and compliance applications of ontology
·    Ontology driven software engineering
·    Deriving ontology applications from business concept (reference) 
ontologies
·    Use of ontologies in machine learning, natural language processing 
or artificial intelligence,
·    Use of ontologies in linked data or in Semantic Web based inference 
processing applications
·    Findings about the nature and style of ontology needed for a given 
type of industrial application

In line with the scope and audience of FOIS and JOWO, papers and 
demonstrations should indicate the ontological motivations/principles 
for the presented technical application or solution.

The submission should also answer these questions:
·    What is the research background and application context of the 
paper or demonstration?
·    For whom is it most interesting/useful? (e.g., for business data 
owners, corporate compliance officers or other corporate stakeholders, 
ontology researchers, ontology developers, ontology practitioners, 
and/or for graduate or undergraduate students?)
·    What are the key technologies used and what are the technical 
challenges addressed?

In addition, these points should be considered:
·    How does the system, application or infrastructure relate to 
pre-existing work and what is its contribution to ontology research?
·    The specific use or uses of ontology in the application (if an 
application is described)
·    Whether any given ontology formally describes real things or data 
about things
·    The logical formalism in which any given ontology is framed
·    Relationship of the ontology to application data if any
·    Ontology development techniques followed
·    Use or non-use of upper ontologies, along with rationale for same
·    Ontology quality or assessment measures followed, if any
·    Any other considerations relating to the application of semantics 
or model theory in any given ontology e.g. formal ontological stances 
(realism, nominalism etc.)

Formal Papers
We invite formal paper submissions relevant to the area of ontology and 
related information systems and which address the topics of the FOIS 
Conference. Technical reports on ontology-based software systems (free 
or commercial), descriptions of completed work, and work in progress are 
all welcome, as are papers on industry ontologies, standards and 
regulatory applications.

Authors must submit a paper that should be between 6 to 10 pages in the 
FOIS format (see
http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za/?page_id=8).

All paper submissions will undergo a common review process alongside 
those for demonstrations. Formal papers for which it is intended that 
there is also a demonstration component should clearly indicate this in 
the abstract. Accepted papers will be published in the JOWO Workshop 
Proceedings.

Demonstrations
The FOIS 2018 Industry Track Demo Sessions are designed to provide an 
exciting and highly interactive way to demonstrate ontology research. 
This element of the Industry Track complements the overall program of 
the FOIS conference and is an excellent forum to advertise the 
applicability of results and software, as well as to receive feedback 
from the international ontology research community.

Demonstrations are intended to showcase innovative formal ontology 
related implementations and technologies in industry. Demonstrations of 
ontology-based software systems (free or commercial), whether these are 
completed work or work in progress, are all welcome.

We explicitly welcome entries from commercial providers. However, 
submissions for demonstrations should go beyond pure advertisements of 
commercial software packages and convey some scientific contribution.

Demonstrations should make clear what will be demonstrated and in 
particular point out what makes the demonstration a novel showcase. 
Submitters should further specify the following:
·    What exactly will be demonstrated?
·    What will attendees of the demonstration learn?
·    How does the demonstrated system, application or infrastructure 
relate to pre-existing work?
·    Why is it a novel showcase in ontology research?

Authors must submit an extended abstract for evaluation. This should 
ideally run to two or three pages and should be at most 5 pages. All 
demonstration submissions will undergo a common review process alongside 
formal papers. Authors are strongly encouraged to include in their 
submission a link to where the demo (live or recorded video) can be 
found. They should also make clear what exactly will be demonstrated to 
the participants.
Submission Details (Papers and Demonstrations)

All submissions must be made electronically via the EasyChair conference 
submission system at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jowo2018 (please, select 
'Demo-Industry’).

Demonstration descriptions and formal papers shall be submitted 
non-anonymously in PDF format. Formal papers shall follow IOS Press 
formatting guidelines found at 
http://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors/
For demonstrations it is possible to present remotely if necessary, but 
at least one of the presenters must be a registered participant at the 
conference. Authors of formal papers are required both to register and 
to attend and present their paper in person at the FOIS conference.

IMPORTANT DATES
Industry and Demo Track Submissions due:          9 JULY 2018
Notifications to submitters:                 25 JULY 2018
Camera-ready versions due:                  15 AUG 2018

Industry and Demonstrations Track Chairs:
Mike Bennett (Hypercube Ltd., UK)
Key-Sun Choi (KAIST, South Korea)

-- 
Mike Bennett
Hypercube Limited
89 Worship Street, London EC2A 2BF
Tel 020 7917 9522  Mob. 07721 420 730
Twitter: @MikeHypercube
www.hypercube.co.uk