[2ndCFP] Second edition of the PLanning And onTology wOrkshop (PLATO) at FOIS/JOWO 2025 - Catania
Emilio Sanfilippo
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The second edition of the PLanning And onTology wOrkshop (PLATO)
Important Dates:
Paper submission:
Paper submission deadline: 1 June 2025
Paper author notification: 14 July 2025
Camera-ready: 1 September 2025
Workshop dates: either September 8 or September 9, 2025 (to be confirmed)
Conference dates: 8-9 September 2025
Contact: plat...@easychair.org
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Dear colleagues,
The second edition of the PLanning And onTology wOrkshop (PLATO) will be held in the context of the Joint Ontology Workshops Episode XI: The Sicilian Summer under the Etna (JOWO 2025), in conjunction with the 15th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2025), 8-12 September 2025, Catania, Italy.
Aim
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Automated Planning and Ontology are two well-established fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The former investigates techniques to formally model and reason about the effects of actions, and decide the combinations of actions that allow an agent to achieve goals. The latter investigates techniques to formally define knowledge (by formally describing domain entities and their interrelations), allowing agents to process information about objects, and events, and incrementally build and verify beliefs. Both Automated Planning and Ontology generally rely on logic to model knowledge and organize reasoning mechanisms. They support the development of cognitive capabilities that autonomous agents need to effectively act in the real world. In this context, the PLanning And onTology wOrkshop (PLATO) aims at bringing together researchers in these two fields of AI to address new research challenges, share their experiences, and learn from each other. The workshop aims at investigating the synergetic contributions of technologies and methods from these two fields. There are examples in the literature that have investigated the use of Ontology to generate planning models, find effective plans, and contextualize plans and action execution to domain features.
Important Dates
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Paper Submission: June 1, 2025
Paper Notification: July 14, 2025
Camera-ready: September 1, 2025
Workshop date: September 8 or 9, 2025 (TBD)
Conference date: September 8-9, 2025
Topics of interest
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The workshop is open to both application and theoretical contributions that see the integration of ontology and planning as a mechanism to enhance the efficacy of AI-based solutions. Here is a list of (some) topics:
Ontological analysis of concepts related to planning/scheduling (e.g., capability, capacity, action, etc)
Domain ontologies supporting tasks related to planning/scheduling
Reuse of foundational ontologies (e.g., DOLCE, BFO, UFO) in order to strive the interoperability among multiple ontologies, among other goals
Semantic Web ontologies and technologies for reasoning, (FAIR) data management, interoperability, etc
Ontologies supporting the interoperability of heterogeneous planning frameworks
Ontologies supporting Plan and Schedule Execution
Plan Recognition, plan management, and goal reasoning
Partially observable and unobservable domains
Knowledge acquisition and engineering for planning and scheduling
Situation assessment for contextualized planning decisions
Explainability of plans and planning models
Trustworthy, safety, and ethics in planning
Benchmarking and evaluation metrics of plans and plan-based controllers
Out-of-the-box research challenges at the intersection between Automated Planning and Ontology
Submissions
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We welcome two categories of paper submission:
Short papers - 6 pages (including references, see template information below). These should describe concrete problems, open issues concerning planning and ontology, or methodologies/approaches pointing out the added values of the integration between planning and ontology.
Full papers - 13 pages (including references). These should report work-in-progress, novel designed technologies or systems relying on the integration of panning and ontology.
Submissions should be made in PDF through EasyChair following the link (select track Planning and Ontology Workshop-PLATO)
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2025
Authors of accepted short and full papers will give a talk about their work during the workshop. Accepted papers will be published with CEUR-WS proceedings, under the IAOA series (https://ceur-ws.org/iaoa.html).
Papers should be formatted according to CEUR-WS style. From 2022 onwards, CEUR-WS requires that authors use the new CEUR-ART style for writing papers. An Overleaf template for LaTeX users is available at the link https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt.
It is also possible to download an offline version with the style files from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. Find out more information on the CEUR-WS website: http://ceur-ws.org/index.html
Program Committee (to be extended)
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Luca Biccheri, CNR - Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies
Stefano Borgo, CNR - Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies
Mauro Dragoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Bastien Dussard, CNRS - Laboratoire de recherche spécialisé dans l’analyse et l’architecture des systèmes
Antonio Lieto, University of Salerno
Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, University of Genova
Alberto Olivares-Alarcos, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – Institut de Robotica i Informatica Industrial
Andrea Orlandini, CNR - Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies
Jan Rosell, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Uli Sattler, University of Manchester
Walter Terkaj, CNR - Institute of Intelligent Industrial Technologies and Systems for Advanced Manufacturing
Mauro Vallati, University of Huddersfield
Organization Committee
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Carmelo Fabio Longo
Institute for Cognitive Science and Technologies (ISTC)
National Research Council (CNR), Italy
Alessandro Umbrico
Institute for Cognitive Science and Technologies (ISTC)
National Research Council (CNR), Italy
Emilio M. Sanfilippo
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC)
National Research Council (CNR),
Italy
Contact: plat...@easychair.org