POWERs @ JOWO2025 September 8-9, 2025, in Catania, Italy
adrien...@gmail.com
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Perspectival Ontology Workshop on Entities that can be Realized
part of the 11th Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2025), held at the 15th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2025)
September 8-9, 2025
University of Catania, Italy
Website: https://powers-workshop.github.io/
Contact: powers....@gmail.com
Submission deadline: May 25, 2025
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About the workshop:
A traditional view holds that potential precedes actuality. According to this view, an event occurs when entities with existing potentialities participate in it and these potentialities are realized. Among those, dispositions determine the behaviors of their bearers under certain circumstances. They are closely related to the causal powers of objects in the world and encompass entities such as abilities, capabilities, and tendencies. The study of dispositions and other realizable entities has become a popular topic in the field of Formal Ontology, with applications in various areas including the representation of diseases, modeling of functions and affordances, and description of organizational capabilities. The POWERs event focuses on dispositions and other realizable entities, inviting researchers from diverse fields such as information science, philosophy, and cognitive science to present their work on this topic and explore different perspectives.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Characterization and formalization of realizable entities
- Types of realizable entities (e.g., discussions on whether roles and biological/artifactual functions are realizable) and analysis of the contrast between dispositional and non-dispositional realizable entities.
- Relation between realizable entities and entities from other categories (e.g., qualities, events).
- Domain applications (e.g., biology, health sciences, industry, enterprise modeling).
- Philosophical investigations relevant to formal ontology, including:
o Is the distinction between realizable and non-realizable (sometimes called “categorical”) properties metaphysical or linguistic?
o Intrinsicness vs. extrinsicness of realizable entities
o How may the distinction between dispositions and powers be relevant for formal ontology?
o Can dispositions provide a good account of causation? Can they offer a good substitute for laws of nature in ontology?
o How could blocks, finks, and antidotes be relevant for applied ontology?
Important Dates:
Submission deadline: 25 May 2025
Notification of acceptance: 14 July 2025
Camera-ready deadline: 1 September 2025
Workshop dates: 8-9 September 2025
Submissions:
We welcome three types of submissions.
Abstract for presentation only: 2-3 pages (not included as a paper in the proceedings);
Short papers: 6-8 pages;
Full research papers: 10-14 pages.
Submissions must be sent via Easychair as a single PDF file and should be formatted in CEUR 1-column format.
Template:
https://ceurws.wordpress.com/2020/03/31/ceurws-publishes-ceurart-paper-style/
Submission link:
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fois2025
(Please select the track WS: Entities that can be realized)
Organisation:
Fabrício Henrique Rodrigues – Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil
Adrien Barton – CNRS, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), France