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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