<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">*** Apologies for cross-posting ***</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">FOIS 2023: 2nd Call for Papers</div><div class="">==============================</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">13th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2023), July 17-20, 2023 (Sherbrooke, QC, Canada) and Sept 18-20, 2023 (Online)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://fois2023.griis.ca" class="">http://fois2023.griis.ca</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We are happy to announce three exciting keynote speakers for FOIS 2023:</div><div class="">- Deborah McGuinness, Tetherless World Senior Constellation Chair and Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA</div><div class="">- John Heil, Professor of Philosophy, Washington University, USA and Durham University, UK</div><div class="">- Michael Gruninger, Professor of Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada</div><div class="">More information about our keynotes speakers: <a href="https://fois2023.griis.ca/keynote-speakers/" class="">https://fois2023.griis.ca/keynote-speakers/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Definition and scope</div><div class="">====================</div><div class="">The FOIS conference is a meeting point for all researchers with an interest in formal ontology. Formal ontology is the systematic study of the types of entities and relations making up the domains of interest represented in modern information systems. The conference encourages submission of high quality, not previously published results on both theoretical issues and practical advancements. FOIS 2023 will have distinct tracks for foundational issues, ontology applications and methods, and domain ontologies.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">FOIS aims to be a nexus of interdisciplinary research and communication for researchers from many domains engaging with formal ontology. 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, as well as the Semantic Web.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA: <a href="http://iaoa.org/" class="">http://iaoa.org/</a>), which is a non-profit organization promoting interdisciplinary research and international collaboration in formal ontology.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Important dates</div><div class="">===============</div><div class="">- Paper submission deadline: 31 January 2023</div><div class="">- Author rebuttal period: March 24-31, 2023 (tentative)</div><div class="">- Notifications: April 10, 2023 (tentative)</div><div class="">- Camera-ready papers: May 1, 2023</div><div class="">- Onsite conference: July 17-20, 2023</div><div class="">- Virtual conference: September 18-20, 2023</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The submission deadline for workshops will be after the notifications to allow authors to submit a revised version of rejected papers to any of the conference workshops if the paper topics are appropriate for this workshop.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Location</div><div class="">========</div><div class="">FOIS 2023 will consist of a physical meeting and a virtual meeting: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">An in-person only meeting in Sherbrooke, Quebec from July 17 to 20, 2023 that will be very much like a traditional conference with keynotes, regular talks, workshops and tutorials and plenty of social and networking opportunities. This part will not have a remote participation option, but we plan on recording selected talks (e.g. keynotes). The main conference will be from July 17 to 19 and workshops and tutorials will be held mostly on July 20. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This will be followed by an online part to be held from September 18 to 20, 2023 that offers an opportunity for presentation and discussion of additional papers that were not presented at the physical meeting in Sherbrooke. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To plan for this two-part event, authors must at the time of submission indicate their preference and constraints for presenting either on site in Sherbrooke or virtually. Acceptance will be either for in-person presentation or for online presentation, at which time authors can no longer change the modality. Since the numbers of in-person and online presentations are limited, we encourage authors to be as flexible as possible to maximize your chance of paper acceptance. More details are provided in the Submission Instructions. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Submissions</div><div class="">===========</div><div class="">FOIS 2023 seeks three types of full-length (14 pages) high-quality papers on a wide range of topics:</div><div class="">Foundational papers address content-related ontological issues, their formal representation, and their relevance to some aspect of information systems.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Application and Methods papers address novel systems, methods, and tools related to building, evaluating, or using ontologies, emphasizing the impact of ontology contents.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Domain ontology papers describe a novel ontology for a specific realm of interest, clarifying ontological choices against requirements and foundational theory, and showing ontology use.</div><div class="">Please refer to the submission instructions for more details. As usual, the FOIS proceedings will be published by IOS Press.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The conference will also offer workshops and tutorials related to formal ontologies. See the separate call for workshops and tutorials for more information. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Topics of interest</div><div class="">==================</div><div class="">Areas of particular interest to FOIS include the following:</div><div class="">- Foundational Issues</div><div class="">- Kinds of entities: particulars/universals, continuants/occurrents, abstracta/concreta, dependent entities/independent entities, natural objects/artifacts, events/processes</div><div class="">- Formal relations: parthood, identity, connection, dependence, constitution, causality, subsumption, instantiation</div><div class="">- Vagueness and granularity</div><div class="">- Space, time, and change</div><div class="">- Methodological issues</div><div class="">- Top-level vs. domain-specific ontologies</div><div class="">- Role of reference ontologies</div><div class="">- Ontology similarity, integration, alignment, matching and entity reconciliation</div><div class="">- Ontology modularity, patterns, and contextuality</div><div class="">- Ontology evaluation, quality, reuse, adaptation, and evolution</div><div class="">- Ontology compliance with FAIR principles</div><div class="">- Formal comparison among ontologies</div><div class="">- Relationship between conceptual modeling and ontologies</div><div class="">- Relationship with cognition, language, semantics, and context</div><div class="">- Connections between knowledge graphs and ontologies</div><div class="">- Methodological issues in the applications of ontologies</div><div class="">- Social issues, such as trust or bias, with respect to ontologies </div><div class="">- Applications</div><div class="">- Technical applications of ontologies, such as</div><div class="">- Semantic Web</div><div class="">- Other areas of AI (Machine Learning, Explainable AI, Rules)</div><div class="">- Qualitative modeling</div><div class="">- Systems applications of ontologies, such as</div><div class="">- Ontology-driven information systems design</div><div class="">- Ontology-based data access</div><div class="">- Knowledge management</div><div class="">- Information retrieval</div><div class="">- Computational linguistics</div><div class="">- Metadata management</div><div class="">- Domain applications of ontologies, such as</div><div class="">- Ontologies for business modeling</div><div class="">- Ontologies for particular scientific disciplines (biology, chemistry, geography, physics, geoscience, cognitive sciences, linguistics, etc.)</div><div class="">- Ontologies for engineering: shape, form and function, artifacts, manufacturing, design, architecture, etc.</div><div class="">- Ontologies for the humanities: arts, cultural studies, history, literature, philosophy, etc.</div><div class="">- Ontologies for the social sciences: economics, law, political science, anthropology, archeology, etc.</div><div class="">- Ontologies for Open Science and dataset sharing</div><div class="">- Domain-specific ontologies</div><div class="">- Ontology of physical reality (matter, space, time, motion, etc.)</div><div class="">- Ontology of biological reality (organisms, genes, proteins, cells, etc.)</div><div class="">- Ontology of mental reality and agency (beliefs, intentions, emotions, perceptions, cognition, etc.)</div><div class="">- Ontology of artifacts, functions, capacities and roles</div><div class="">- Ontology of social reality (institutions, organizations, norms, social relationships, artistic expressions, etc.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Conference Organization</div><div class="">=======================</div><div class="">General Chair: Antony Galton, University of Exeter, UK</div><div class="">PC Chairs: Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT-CNRS Toulouse, France</div><div class=""> Torsten Hahmann, University of Maine, USA</div><div class="">Local Organization Chair: Jean-François Ethier, University of Sherbrooke, Canada </div><div class="">Online Chair: Cassia Trojahn, IRIT Université Toulouse 2, France</div><div class="">Workshop and Tutorial Chairs: Megan Katsumi, University of Toronto, Canada</div><div class=""> Emilio Sanfilippo, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy</div><div class="">Early Career Chairs: Antoine Zimmermann, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne (EMSE), France</div><div class=""> Guendalina Righetti, Free University Bozen/Bolzano, Italy</div><div class="">Demo & Showcase Chairs: Sergio de Cesare, University of Westminster, UK</div><div class=""> Tiago Prince Sales, University of Twente, Netherlands</div><div class="">Publicity Chairs: Lucia Gomez Alvarez, TU Dresden, Germany</div><div class=""> Selja Seppälä, University College Cork, Ireland</div><div class="">Proceedings Chair: Maria Hedblom, Jönköping University, Sweden</div><div class="">Program committee: <a href="https://fois2023.griis.ca/conference-organization/" class="">https://fois2023.griis.ca/conference-organization/</a></div><div class=""><br 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