<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">(We apologise for possible cross postings)<br><font size="6">CAOS 2021 - Call for Papers</font><br><font size="4">Cognition And OntologieS<br></font>in conjunction with FOIS held September 11-18 in Bolzano, Italy <br>(hybrid event)</div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span><a href="https://caos.inf.unibz.it"> https://caos.inf.unibz.it<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></a></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">The purpose of the workshop is to bridge the gap between the cognitive sciences and research on ontologies and, thus, to create a venue for researchers interested in interdisciplinary aspects of knowledge representation.</span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="box-sizing:content-box">More specifically CAOS investigates how key cognitive phenomena and concepts (and the involved terminology) can be found across language, psychology and reasoning and how they can be formally and ontologically understood and analysed. It moreover seeks answers to ways such formalisations and ontological analysis can be exploited in Artificial Intelligence and information systems in general.<br style="box-sizing:content-box"><br style="box-sizing:content-box">We welcome submissions on topics related to the ontology of hypothesized building blocks of cognition (such as image schemas, affordances, categories, and related notions) and of cognitive capacities (such as concept invention, language acquisition and categorisation), as well as system demonstrations modelling these capacities in application settings. We also welcome submissions addressing the cognitive and epistemological adequacy of ontological modelling.<br style="box-sizing:content-box"><br style="box-sizing:content-box"></span><span style="box-sizing:content-box;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold">Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):<br style="box-sizing:content-box"></span><span style="box-sizing:content-box;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="box-sizing:content-box"></span><span style="box-sizing:content-box;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold">Modelling cognitive phenomena:<br style="box-sizing:content-box"></span></font><ul style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(49,49,49)"><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:content-box"><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Language acquisition</font></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:content-box"><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Formalisation / modelling of language</font></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:content-box"><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Embodied cognition</font></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:content-box"><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Concept invention</font></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:content-box"><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">AI for language understanding</font></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:content-box"><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Image schemas / affordances for AI</font></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:content-box"><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Knowledge acquisition in AI and Robotics</font></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:content-box"><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Natural language applications / system-demonstrations</font></span></li></ul><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold">Epistemological and cognitive foundation of ontologies:<br style="box-sizing:content-box"></span></font><ul style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(49,49,49)"><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:content-box"><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Cognitive foundations of ontologies and ontologies of cognitive theories (e.g. connection with conceptual spaces, diagrammatic representations, mental models, prototypes, image schemas, scripts etc.).</font></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:content-box"><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Empirical foundations of ontologies: ontologies driven from observations, measurements, tests, and in general from data acquired using empirical procedures.</font></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:content-box"><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Representation of different perspectives on the same domain: contexts, granularity, resolution, ontological levels.</font></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:content-box"><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Quantitative approaches/analyses, probabilities, uncertainty, and ontologies.</font></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:content-box"><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Neural networks and ontological modelling.</font></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:content-box"><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Integration of ontologies with different formats and levels of representation (e.g. neural-symbolic integration).</font></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:content-box"><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Inductive reasoning in ontologies.</font></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:content-box"><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Ontological Extensions of Cognitive Architectures.</font></span></li></ul><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="box-sizing:content-box">We welcome researchers from all career stages to participate. Work in progress (short papers) are also welcome since a central goal of the workshop is the discussion of ongoing interdisciplinary work.</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="box-sizing:content-box">All papers must be original and not submitted to or accepted by any other workshop, conference or journal. Note, that for inclusion in the JOWO proceedings, short and position papers are required to be at least 5 pages long.<br style="box-sizing:content-box"><br style="box-sizing:content-box">All contributions will be peer-reviewed, and the review process will be managed in a collaborative and transparent manner using the EasyChair System as part of the JOWO organisation.<br style="box-sizing:content-box"><br style="box-sizing:content-box"></span><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold"><font size="4">Submissions</font><br style="box-sizing:content-box"></span><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="box-sizing:content-box"></span><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold">Submission deadline: July 3, 2021</span><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="box-sizing:content-box"></span><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold">Submission link:</span><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jowo2021" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(104,70,125);box-sizing:content-box;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jowo2021</a></span><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="box-sizing:content-box"></span></font>(select the track “Cognition And OntologieS”)  <font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br><br style="box-sizing:content-box"><b>Details and instructions:<br style="box-sizing:content-box"></b><br style="box-sizing:content-box">We encourage three types of contributions:<br style="box-sizing:content-box"></span><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold"><br style="box-sizing:content-box">Full research paper: </span><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Submitted papers must not exceed 14 pages (excluding the bibliography).<br style="box-sizing:content-box">Please note that the minimum length is 10 pages.<br style="box-sizing:content-box"><br style="box-sizing:content-box"></span><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold">Short paper:</span><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> Submitted papers must not exceed 7 pages (excluding the bibliography). Please note that the minimum length is 5 pages.<br><br><b>Abstracts for presentation:</b> 2-4 page abstracts for presentation.<br>Note that these will not be included in the proceedings.<br style="box-sizing:content-box"><br style="box-sizing:content-box">Papers should be submitted non-anonymously in PDF format in compliance with the new 1-column CEUR-ART Style. Word and Latex templates can be found at<br style="box-sizing:content-box"></span><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://ceurws.wordpress.com/2020/03/31/ceurws-publishes-ceurart-paper-style/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(104,70,125);box-sizing:content-box;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">https://ceurws.wordpress.com/2020/03/31/ceurws-publishes-ceurart-paper-style/</a></span><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="box-sizing:content-box"><br style="box-sizing:content-box"></span><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)">All contributions to JOWO workshops will be published in a joint CEUR proceedings volume, compare:<br style="box-sizing:content-box"><br style="box-sizing:content-box">JOWO 2020: </span><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2708/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(104,70,125);box-sizing:content-box;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2708/</a></span><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="box-sizing:content-box">JOWO 2019: </span><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2518/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(104,70,125);box-sizing:content-box;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2518/</a></span><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="box-sizing:content-box">JOWO 2018: </span><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2205/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(104,70,125);box-sizing:content-box;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2205/</a></span><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="box-sizing:content-box"><br style="box-sizing:content-box"></span><span style="box-sizing:content-box;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold">Workshop policy</span><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="box-sizing:content-box"><br style="box-sizing:content-box">CAOS 2021 is planned as a hybrid event. Hence, there will be a physical meeting in Bolzano which hopefully most will be able to join. However, given the uncertainty about travel in September, we will make arrangements for remote participation. If the physical meeting cannot be held due to social restrictions, the workshop will go fully virtual.<br><br></span></font><span style="box-sizing:content-box;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold">Organisation</span><span style="box-sizing:content-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br style="box-sizing:content-box"></font></span><br><a href="http://www.mariamhedblom.com/">Maria M. Hedblom</a>: University of Bremen, Germany.<br><a href="http://www.inf.unibz.it/~okutz/">Oliver Kutz</a>: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.<br><a href="https://www.unibz.it/de/faculties/computer-science/phd-computer-science/phd-students/phd/40723-guendalina-righetti">Guendalina Righetti</a>: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy<br><br><b>Program Committee</b><br><i>(as of yet)</i><br><br>Taisuke Akimoto, Kyushu Institute of Technology  <br>Lucas Bechberger, Osnabrück University  <br>Brandon Bennett, University of Leeds<br></div><div dir="ltr">Daniel Beßler, University of Bremen<br>João Miguel Cunha, University of Coimbra<br>

Roberta Ferrario, CNR Italy

  <br>Karl Hammar, Jönköping University<br>

Antonio Lieto, University of Turin

  <br>Ana-Maria Olteteanu, Freie Universität Berlin  <br>Daniele Porello, University of Genova  <br>Marco Schorlemmer, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, IIIA-CSIC  <br>Ana Tanevska, Italian Institute of Technology<br>Tony Veale, University College Dublin<br>Michael Verdonck, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel<br><br></div></div></div></div></div>