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ECS-FOIS 2020 : Early Career Symposium at the 11th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems
ECS-FOIS 2020 : Early Career Symposium at the 11th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems

ECS-FOIS 2020 : Early Career Symposium at the 11th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems

Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Event Date: September 14, 2020 - September 17, 2020
Submission Deadline: June 01, 2020
Notification of Acceptance: July 01, 2020
Camera Ready Version Due: August 02, 2020




About

FOIS 2020 will host an Early Career Symposium (ECS). This event is designed to provide an opportunity for graduate students to present their work at one of the leading conferences in formal ontology and to get first-hand feedback and mentorship from senior researchers in their field. It will also allow participants to network with other (early career) scientists in the broad field of ontology, as well as to participate in a rich social environment together with peers. Topics of interest include all topics relevant to the interdisciplinary field of ontology as outlined in the topics of interest for FOIS 2020.


Call for Papers

Topics of interest

Areas of particular interest to FOIS include the following:

Foundational Issues:

  • Kinds of entities: particulars/universals, continuants/occurrents, abstracta/concreta, dependent entities/independent entities, natural objects/artifacts
  • Formal relations: parthood, identity, connection, dependence, constitution, causality, subsumption, instantiation
  • Vagueness and granularity
  • Space, time, and change

Methodological issues

  • Top-level vs. domain-specific ontologies
  • Role of reference ontologies
  • Ontology similarity, integration and alignment
  • Ontology modularity, contextuality, and evolution
  • Formal comparison among ontologies
  • Relationship with cognition, language, semantics, context
  • Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs

Domain-specific ontologies

  • Ontology of physical reality (matter, space, time, motion etc.)
  • Ontology of biological reality (organisms, genes, proteins, cells etc.)
  • Ontology of mental reality and agency (beliefs, intentions, emotions, perceptions, cognition, etc.)
  • Ontology of artifacts, functions, capacities and roles
  • Ontology of social reality (institutions, organizations, norms, social relationships, artistic expressions etc.)

Applications:

  • Ontology-driven information systems design
  • Ontological foundations for conceptual modeling
  • Knowledge management
  • Qualitative modeling
  • Computational linguistics
  • Information retrieval
  • Semantic Web
  • Business modeling
  • Ontologies and Machine Learning
  • Ontologies and Explainable AI
  • Ontologies for particular scientific disciplines (biology, chemistry, geography, physics, geoscience, cognitive sciences, linguistics etc.)
  • Ontologies for engineering: shape, form and function, artifacts, manufacturing, design, architecture etc.
  • Ontologies for the humanities: arts, cultural studies, history, literature, philosophy, etc.
  • Ontologies for the social sciences: economics, law, political science, anthropology, archeology, etc.


Summary

ECS-FOIS 2020 : Early Career Symposium at the 11th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems will take place in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. It’s a 4 days event starting on Sep 14, 2020 (Monday) and will be winded up on Sep 17, 2020 (Thursday).

ECS-FOIS 2020 falls under the following areas: ONTOLOGY, INFORMATION SYSTEMS, etc. Submissions for this Symposium can be made by Jun 01, 2020. Authors can expect the result of submission by Jul 01, 2020. Upon acceptance, authors should submit the final version of the manuscript on or before Aug 02, 2020 to the official website of the Symposium.

Please check the official event website for possible changes before you make any travelling arrangements. Generally, events are strict with their deadlines. It is advisable to check the official website for all the deadlines.

Other Details of the ECS-FOIS 2020

  • Short Name: ECS-FOIS 2020
  • Full Name: Early Career Symposium at the 11th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems
  • Timing: 09:00 AM-06:00 PM (expected)
  • Fees: Check the official website of ECS-FOIS 2020
  • Event Type: Symposium
  • Website Link: https://fois2020.inf.unibz.it/ecs/
  • Location/Address: Bozen-Bolzano, Italy


Credits and Sources

[1] ECS-FOIS 2020 : Early Career Symposium at the 11th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems


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