<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">(Apologies for potential cross-posting)</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:20px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>11th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2020),</b></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:22px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">September 14-17, 2020, Bolzen-Bolzano, Italy</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(66,1,120);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="text-decoration-line:underline;font-kerning:none"><a href="https://fois2020.inf.unibz.it/" target="_blank">https://<span style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(0,0,233)">fois</span>2020.inf.unibz.it/</a></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Update for deadline and organisation of FOIS:</b></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Responding to the current health crisis, the new submission deadline has been set to </b></span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:20px;line-height:normal;font-kerning:none"><b>May 13</b></span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:21px;line-height:normal;font-kerning:none"><b>.</b></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(40,40,40);font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:22px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><b><font color="#000000">Please note further</font><font color="#282828">:</font></b></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(40,40,40);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal">– The organisation team of FOIS 2020 is committed to publishing the FOIS proceedings with IOS Press in 2020.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(40,40,40);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal">– FOIS will happen as a face-to-face event in Bolzano when it is safe to travel. Ideally, in September 2020 but otherwise at a later date in 2021.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(40,40,40);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal">– Physical attendance of authors of accepted papers at FOIS will be optional.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(40,40,40);font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:22px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(11,99,221);font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(251,0,7)"><b>See announcement COVID-19 for future updates:</b></span><span style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(40,40,40)"><b> </b><a href="https://fois2020.inf.unibz.it/announcement-covid-19/" target="_blank"><span style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(11,99,221)"><b>https://fois2020.inf.unibz.it/announcement-covid-19/</b></span></a></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:16px;color:rgb(40,40,40);font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:19px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">-----------------------------------</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">DEFINITION AND SCOPE</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">-----------------------------------</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">The advent of complex information systems that rely on robust, coherent and formal representations of their subject matter, has led to the exploitation of ontological analysis and ontology-based representation. The systematic study of such analysis and representation is at the center of the modern discipline of formal ontology, which is a general theory of the types of entities and relations making up domains of interest.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">Researchers in many domains engage with formal ontology to provide a solid foundation for their work. Common application areas include conceptual modeling, database design, knowledge engineering and management, software engineering, organizational modeling, artificial intelligence, robotics, computational linguistics, the life sciences, bioinformatics and scientific research in general, geographic information science, information retrieval, library and information science, and the Semantic Web.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">The FOIS conference is a meeting point for all researchers with an interest in formal ontology. The conference encourages new high quality submissions on both theoretical issues and concrete applications. As in previous years, FOIS 2020 aims to be a nexus of interdisciplinary research and communication.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA: <a href="http://iaoa.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(0,0,233)">http://iaoa.org/</span></a>), which is a non-profit organization promoting interdisciplinary research and international collaboration in formal ontology.  </span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">------------------------------</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">FORMAT</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">------------------------------</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>FOIS 2020 includes a number of activities:</b></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* FOIS conference (single track program)</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* workshops (in conjunction with EKAW 2020 and ICBO 2020)</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* tutorials (in conjunction with EKAW 2020 and ICBO 2020)</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* a young researchers symposium</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* a demo and industry track</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* an ontology show and tell</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">-----------------------------</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">IMPORTANT DATES</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">-----------------------------</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b></b></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Call for papers</b></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Paper Submission Deadline: 13 May 2020</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Notification: 20 July 2020</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Conference Dates (tentative): 14-17 September 2020</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;min-height:17px"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b></b></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(26,26,26);text-align:justify;font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-kerning:none">------------------------------</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">SUBMISSIONS</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">------------------------------</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">FOIS seeks full-length high-quality papers on a wide range of topics. An ideal FOIS paper will address both content-related ontological issues, their formal representation, as well as their impact and relevance for some aspect of information systems. Please refer to the FOIS submissions page for submission details. As usual, the FOIS proceedings will be published by IOS Press.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">Related activities, such as workshops and tutorials, may specify different submission formats, for example, short papers or posters. Please refer to the relevant related activity page (forthcoming) for submission and publication details.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">------------------------------</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">TOPICS OF INTEREST</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">------------------------------</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b></b></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Areas of particular interest to FOIS include the following:</b></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Foundational Issues</b></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Kinds of entities: particulars/universals, continuants/occurrents, abstracta/concreta, dependent entities/independent entities, natural objects/artifacts</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Formal relations: parthood, identity, connection, dependence, constitution, causality, subsumption, instantiation</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Vagueness and granularity</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Space, time, and change</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Methodological issues</b></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Top-level vs. domain-specific ontologies</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Role of reference ontologies</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Ontology similarity, integration and alignment</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Ontology modularity, contextuality, and evolution</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Formal comparison among ontologies</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Relationship with cognition, language, semantics, context</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Domain-specific ontologies</b></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Ontology of physical reality (matter, space, time, motion etc.)</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Ontology of biological reality (organisms, genes, proteins, cells etc.)</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Ontology of mental reality and agency (beliefs, intentions, emotions, perceptions, cognition,  etc.)</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Ontology of artifacts, functions, capacities and roles</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Ontology of social reality (institutions, organizations, norms, social relationships, artistic expressions etc.)</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Applications</b></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Ontology-driven information systems design</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Ontological foundations for conceptual modeling</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Knowledge management</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Qualitative modeling</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Computational linguistics</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Information retrieval</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Semantic Web</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Business modeling</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Ontologies and Machine Learning</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Ontologies and Explainable AI</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Ontologies for particular scientific disciplines (biology, chemistry, geography, physics, geoscience, cognitive sciences, linguistics etc.)</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Ontologies for engineering: shape, form and function, artifacts, manufacturing, design, architecture etc.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Ontologies for the humanities: arts, cultural studies, history, literature, philosophy, etc.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Ontologies for the social sciences: economics, law, political science, anthropology, archeology, etc.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">--------------------------------------------</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">CONFERENCE ORGANISATION</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">--------------------------------------------</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b></b></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>General Chair</b></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Roberta Ferrario (ISTC CNR, Trento, Italy)</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Program Chairs</b></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Boyan Brodaric (Geological Survey of Canada, Canada)</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Fabian Neuhaus (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany)</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Local Organization</b></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Oliver Kutz (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Nicolas Troquard (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Publicity Chair</b></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Guendalina Righetti (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Maria Hedblom (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Proceedings Chair</b></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Megan Katsumi (University of Toronto) </span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Workshop / Tutorial Chairs</b></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Torsten Hahmann (University of Maine)</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Claudio Masolo (ISTC CNR, Trento, Italy)</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Ontology Show and Tell</b></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Michael Gruninger (University of Toronto)</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Frank Loebe (University of Leipzig)</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Early Career Symposium</b></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Pawel Garbacz (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin)</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Selja Seppala (University College Cork)</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Demo and Industrial Track Chair</b></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Robert Hoehndorf (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Amanda Vizedom (Credit Suisse)</span></p></div></div></div></div></div>