28.5066, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Lexicography, Semantics/South Africa

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Subject: 28.5066, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Lexicography, Semantics/South Africa

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Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 10:34:43
From: Karl Hammar [karl.hammar at ju.se]
Subject: Formal Ontology in Information Systems

 
Full Title: Formal Ontology in Information Systems 
Short Title: FOIS 

Date: 17-Sep-2018 - 21-Sep-2018
Location: Cape Town, South Africa 
Contact Person: Oliver Kutz
Meeting Email: Oliver.Kutz at unibz.it
Web Site: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Lexicography; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 13-Apr-2018 

Meeting Description:

FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology
and its Applications (IAOA, website: http://iaoa.org/), which is a non-profit
organization aimed to promote interdisciplinary research and international
collaboration at the intersection of philosophical ontology, linguistics,
logic, cognitive science, and computer science, as well as in the applications
of ontological analysis to conceptual modeling, knowledge engineering,
knowledge management, information-systems development, library and information
science, scientific research, and semantic technologies in general.


Call for Papers:

We seek high-quality papers on a wide range of topics. Concerning scope, an
ideal FOIS paper will address both content-related ontological issues and
their formal modeling, as well as their impact and relevance for some aspects
of information systems.

Areas of particular interest to the conference include the following:

Foundational Issues:

- Kinds of entities: particulars/universals, continuants/occurrents,
abstracta/concreta, dependent entities/independent entities, natural
objects/artifacts
- Formal relations: parthood, identity, connection, dependence, constitution,
causality, subsumption, instantiation
- Vagueness and granularity
- Space, time, and change

Methodological issues

- Top-level vs. domain-specific ontologies
- Role of reference ontologies
- Ontology integration and alignment
- Formal comparison among ontologies
- Relationship with cognition, language, semantics, context

Domain-specific ontologies:

- Ontology of physical reality (matter, space, time, motion etc.)
- Ontology of biological reality (organisms, genes, proteins, cells etc.)
- Ontology of mental reality and agency (beliefs, intentions, emotions,
perceptions etc.)
- Ontology of artifacts, functions, capacities and roles
- Ontology of social reality (institutions, organizations, norms, social
relationships, artistic expressions etc.)

Applications:

- Ontology-driven information systems design
- Ontological foundations for conceptual modeling
- Knowledge management
- Qualitative modeling
- Computational linguistics
- Information retrieval
- Semantic Web, Web services
- Business modeling
- Ontologies for particular scientific disciplines (biology, chemistry,
geography, physics, cognitive sciences, linguistics etc.)
- Ontologies for engineering: shape, form and function, artifacts,
manufacturing, design, architecture etc.
- Ontologies for the humanities: arts, cultural studies, history, law,
literature, philosophy etc.

Information about the submission procedure will be available in the next call
for papers.

Important Dates:

Call for Papers:

Paper Submission Deadline: 13 April 2018
Notification: 30 May 2018
Camera-ready papers: 24 June 2018
Conference Dates: 17-21 September 2018

Call for workshop/tutorial:

Proposal Submission: 2 March 2018
Notification: 15 March 2018

As usual, the FOIS proceedings will be published in book form by a prominent
publisher. Furthermore, the papers will be available open access.




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