International Workshop on Ontologies for Social Services (
OSS2022)
Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO)
2022. The workshop will be held on
15-19 August
2022 in Jönköping University, Jönköpin, Sweden.
https://csse.utoronto.ca/oss2022*WORKSHOP SCOPE AND AIM*
Semantic
Technologies provide a formal way to represent knowledge in ways that
are interpretable by computers and a related technology stack to store,
integrate and query information semantically.
The purpose of the
OSS workshop
is to foster communication and strengthen interdisciplinary work at the
intersection of semantic technologies and social services. We invite
researchers from the Knowledge Representation, Semantic Web, Machine
Learning, and Social Science communities to submit theoretical
contributions, novel algorithms, artefacts, and tools related to social
services. We welcome reports from Social Work practitioners on their
experiences using semantic-enabled technologies, best practices, and
insights.
For additional information, please contact
oss2022c...@gmail.com.
*IMPORTANT DATES*
- Submissions Due:
May 1st, 2022 May 23rd, 2022.- Notifications Due: June 15,
2022.
- Camera Ready: July 22,
2022.
- Workshop: August 15-19,
2022*TOPICS OF INTEREST*
We
welcome submissions from researchers and practitioners working at the
intersection of semantic technologies and social services, and social
service practitioners developing ontological artifacts.
- New ontologies and Semantic Data Models for Social Services
- Ontology extension for Social Services (e.g. BFO, DOLCE, SUMO, FOAF, GoodRelations)
- Knowledge Acquisition, including ontology learning, natural language processing, and service plan extraction and optimization.
- Knowledge Management
- Semantic Data Integration
- Knowledge-based Decision Support Systems, such as recommender systems and information retrieval.
- Ontologies for Machine Learning
- Social service governance, including trust, cooperation, and competition.
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System Assessment and Analysis, including policy evaluation, economic
analysis, impact models, Social Return on Investment (SROI)
- Social service client outcome assessment, including risk assessment and conflict resolution.
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Industry Applications and Case-studies, including Linked Data
Applications, Semantic Web, and Knowledge Graphs, lessons learned and
best practices.
- Social Work Theory, including
ontology of Social Work paradigms, educational material, and practice,
behavior theory, cognitive theory.
- Social Prescribing, and related ontologies.
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Models of stakeholder goals, needs, roles (e.g.
belief-desires-intentions models, UNSDG Goals, service providers and
funders, socioeconomic determinants)
- Models of
Social Services, including service provisioning, process modelling,
economic and funding models, sustainability, and client agency.
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Cross-disciplinary research in Social Service and related areas,
including public services, public health, government services, urban
planning, and the judicial system.
*SUBMISSION GUIDELINES*
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Authors are invited to submit electronically original contributions in
English. Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages for regular papers,
6 pages for early career and position papers, and 3 pages for posters
and demos.
- All papers must be submitted non-anonymously in PDF format following the CEUR-WS single column formatting guidelines.
- The direct template download for Latex and MS Word is available here:
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip- There is also an Overleaf Template available here:
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw- Papers must be submitted through the EasyChair system.
- Papers accepted at ICBO workshops will be published in a volume of CEUR workshop proceedings IAOA series.
Please make your submission using EasyChair
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jowo2022.
Diversity and inclusion statement. We kindly ask authors to adopt
inclusive language in their papers and presentations (
https://dbdni.github.io/pages/inclusivewriting.html and
https://dbdni.github.io/pages/inclusivetalks.html), and all participants to adopt a proper code of conduct (
https://dbdni.github.io/pages/codeofconduct.html).
*ORGANISING COMMITTEE*
- Bart Gajderowicz, Centre for Social Services Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada
- Daniela Rosu, Centre for Social Services Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada
- Janna Hastings, Center for Behaviour Change, University College London, UK