Call for papers - The Food, Waste, and Sustainability: Synergizing Ontology Efforts 2025 Workshop
Giorgio Ubbiali
[apologies for cross-posting]
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The Food, Waste, and Sustainability: Synergizing Ontology Efforts 2025 Workshop
Important Dates
Paper and abstract submission deadline: October 20, 2025
Author notification of acceptance: October 30, 2025
Camera-ready papers: TBD according to ICBO2025 schedule
Workshop date: November 14, 2025
Contact: giorgio...@pthsta.it
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Dear colleagues,
the Food, Waste, and Sustainability: Synergizing Ontology Efforts 2025 Workshop will be held on November 14th as part of the 16th International Conference on Biological and Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2025).
Aim
In the last decades, several initiatives have dealt with developing ontologies for health, as witnessed by many of the resources provided by the Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology (OBO) Foundry. Recently, attention has also been given to modeling sustainability issues, which resulted in ontologies like Sustainability Core Ontology (SCO), Sustainable Development Goals Interface Ontology (SDGIO), Sustainable Met Systems Ontology (SuMSO), and Sustainable Development and Climate (SDC) Ontology. It is imperative to enhance interconnectedness among these ontologies and related applications. In particular, it will be important to communicate across different ontology communities to adequately capture the intrinsic connections between health and sustainability. This workshop aims at promoting discussions in this direction, focusing on waste, especially food and plastic waste, as a starting use case. The choice of this use case is motivated by the intrinsic relevance that this theme holds both in terms of human health and food systems sustainability.
Topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to:
Ontologies, logics, and semantics for sustainability and health.
Conceptualizations and models of food and plastic waste.
Ontologies of plastic pollution, including micro- and nanoplastics
Ontology applications to reduce and upscale waste in food systems.
Initiatives to synergize sustainability and health ontologies and applications across ontology communities.
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: 20 October
Abstract submission deadline: 20 October
Notification of acceptance: 30 October
Camera-ready papers: TBD according to ICBO2025 schedule.
Workshop Date: November 14, 2025
Location: Fully remote.
Time and Duration: 4-7 pm CET.
Submission Guidelines
The workshop accepts both papers and abstracts for presentation addressing at least one of the aforementioned topics of interest. For each paper or abstract presentation accepted, at least one author must register.
We welcome the following submission categories:
Full-length papers: 7-10 pages (Including references).
Short papers: up to 6 pages (Including references).
Abstract: up to 2 pages (excluding references)
Please follow the guidelines for ICBO2025 main track submissions to format both papers and abstracts. Regarding the AUTHOR-AGREEMENT form, follow ICBO2025 guidelines and upload within your submission.
Submission Link
Please submit your work, in Word or PDF format, at the following link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICBO2025/Submission/Index (Please select the author track: Food, Waste and Sustainability: Synergizing Ontology Efforts)
Publications
Accepted papers can be published as part of the ICBO Conference proceedings, which will be published as CEUR Workshop Proceedings within the IAOA series. Mere abstracts are not accepted by CEUR-WS.
Organizing Committee
Dr. Giorgio A. Ubbiali, PTH Brixen College, Bressanone, Italy
Prof. Dr. Ludger Jansen, PTH Brixen College, Bressanone, Italy
For more information, please consult the workshop website and contact Giorgio Ubbiali at giorgio...@pthsta.it
Sincerely,
Giorgio Ubbiali