[CfP] [FOIS 2024] First Call for Papers, Workshops, and Journal-first
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14th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2024)
15-19 July 2024 (Enschede, Netherlands) - 08-09 July 2024 (online)
Website: https://www.utwente.nl/en/eemcs/fois2024/
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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.
FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA), a non-profit organization promoting interdisciplinary research and international collaboration in formal ontology.
FOIS 2024 will be held both online and in Enschede, the Netherlands, by the Semantics, Cybersecurity & Services group of the University of Twente.
The conference includes the following calls:
- Main Papers*
- Workshops - Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO)*
- Journal-first*
- Tutorials
- Ontology showcase
- Demonstrations
- Project exhibitions
* Calls currently open, details below
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Call for Papers
Paper submission deadline: 26 February 2024 (AoE)
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The conference encourages submission of high quality, not previously published results on both theoretical issues and practical advancements.
Important dates
Paper submission: 26 February 2024 (AoE)
Notifications: 15 April 2024
Virtual conference: 8-9 July 2024
Onsite conference: 15-19 July 2024
Camera-ready papers: 30 July 2024
Submission types
FOIS 2024 seeks three types of full-length (14 pages) high-quality papers on a wide range of topics:
Foundational papers address content-related ontological issues, their formal representation, and their relevance to some aspect of information systems.
Application and Methods papers address novel systems, methods, and tools related to building, evaluating, or using ontologies, emphasizing the impact of ontology contents.
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.
As usual, the FOIS proceedings will be published by IOS Press.
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Call for Workshop Proposals - Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO)
Episode X: The Tukker Zomer of Ontology
Workshop proposal submission: 14 December, 2024
Webpage: https://www.utwente.nl/en/eemcs/fois2024/calls/workshops/#overview
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The mission of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO) is to join forces of the diverse communities interested in building, reasoning with, and applying formalized ontologies in the wide spectrum of information sciences, artificial intelligence theory and applications, philosophy and cognitive science, and beyond.
As in earlier years, all contributions to accepted workshops will be published open access in a joint CEUR proceedings volume, as part of the new IAOA series (http://ceur-ws.org/iaoa.html).
We encourage several forms and lengths of workshops (the list is non-exhaustive):
Workshops that focus on an established research area, including continuations of workshops that were held in the past;
Workshops that focus on emerging topics and applications, or on open research questions and challenges;
Workshops that aim to create cross-disciplinary research fostering the exchange of ideas between groups otherwise mostly disconnected
Workshops that promote hands-on activities related to ontologies and their applications.
Important dates
Workshop proposal submission: 14 December, 2024
Workshop acceptance notification: 08 January 2024
Workshop call for papers announcement and publicity: 31 January 2024
Workshop paper submission deadline: 17 April 2024
Workshop author notification: 15 May 2024
Camera-ready submission (post-conference proceedings): 30 June 2024
Workshop day: between 15-19 July 2024 (co-located with FOIS 2024)
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Call for Journal-first
Paper submission: 17 April 2024
Webpage: https://www.utwente.nl/en/eemcs/fois2024/calls/journal-first/
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The FOIS 2024 journal-first track provides a forum to discuss recent published research on topics related to formal ontology for broader dissemination within the FOIS community. The track invites submissions of extended abstracts of papers that have appeared or have been accepted for publication in journals, but have not been previously presented at FOIS or any other applied ontology-focused conference, including ICBO, ISWC, ESWC, K-CAP, and all JOWO workshops.
Copyright permitting, accepted abstracts to the track (or shortened versions) will be published in the conference proceedings for FOIS satellite events within the IAOA series at CEUR-WS. In addition, they will be presented during the conference (either on-site or online). Accepted papers to the track will be linked from the conference web site.
At least one author of each accepted abstract is required to register for the conference to present the work (on-site or online).
Expected contributions
For the journal-first track, we solicit submissions that meet the following criteria:
- They relate to the topics of the FOIS conference (see FOIS 2024's call for papers).
- They are not extensions of an earlier conference or workshop paper.
- They must have been published in a journal in 2021 or later.
- They are research articles, but not review articles or commentaries.
Submissions that are in press can be submitted as long as the final camera-ready version is available.
Important dates
Paper submission: 17 April 2024
Author notification: 15 May 2024
FOIS 2024 Organisation
General Chair
Giancarlo Guizzardi; University of Twente; The Netherlands
Program Committee Chairs
Cassia Trojahn, IRIT Université Toulouse 2, France
Daniele Porello, University of Genova, Italy
Local Organisation Chair
Tiago Prince Sales, University of Twente, The Netherlands
JOWO Chairs
Claudenir M. Fonseca, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Guendalina Righetti, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Online Chairs
Sergio de Cesare, University of Westminster, UK
FAIR Chairs
Luiz Olavo Bonino, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Journal-first Chairs
Emilio Sanfilippo, ISTC-CNR Laboratory for Applied Ontology, Italy
Adrien Barton, IRIT & CNRS, France
Ontology Showcase Chairs
Laura Daniele, TNO, The Netherlands
João Paulo A. Almeida, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
Demonstration Chairs
Pawel Garbacz, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
Robert Pergl, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
Project Exhibition Chair
Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University, Sweden
Industry Chairs
Jan Voskuil, Taxonic, The Netherlands
Mara Abel, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Tutorial Chairs
Chiara Ghidini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Veruska Zamborlini, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
Early Career Symposium Chairs
Zubeida Dawood, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa
Pedro Paulo F. Barcelos, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Publicity Chairs
Mattia Fumagalli, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Greta Adamo, Basque Centre for Climate Change, Spain
Proceedings Chairs
Pedro Paulo F. Barcelos, University of Twente, The Netherlands