Appel: FOCA at ESSLLI, deadline approaching

Thierry Hamon thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR
Tue Feb 21 16:58:17 UTC 2006 

Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:32:36 +0100
From: FOCA at ESSLLI <esslli06 at loa-cnr.it>
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                   DEADLINE IS APPROACHING! MARCH 8

         ********* APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS *********

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                           CALL FOR PAPERS
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Formal Ontologies for Communicating Agents (FOCA)
http://www.loa-cnr.it/esslli06/
July 31 - August 4, 2006

organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and
Information
ESSLLI 2006 http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es/
July 31 - August 11, 2006 in Malaga

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WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS:

Roberta Ferrario (ferrario at loa-cnr.it)
Nicola Guarino (guarino at loa-cnr.it)
Laurent Prevot (prevotlaurent at gmail.com)

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WORKSHOP PURPOSE:

In recent years lots of efforts have been devoted to formal studies of
human and artificial agent communication. Research advancements have
been achieved along three main lines: (i) agent's internal states and
dynamics, (ii) social interaction and conventional communicative
patterns, (iii) semantics-pragmatics interface - especially in the
dialogue context (i.e. the interplay between the semantic content of
messages and the communicative acts themselves). There is a recent
trend of studies trying to integrate these approaches in many ways. On
the other hand, formal ontology has been consecrated as a good
solution for comparing and integrating information and thus its
application to this specific domain is very promising . More
precisely, an ontological analysis of the fundamental ingredients of
interaction and communication will make explicit the hidden
ontological assumptions underlying all these proposals.

Ontology has also proven to be a very powerful means to address issues
related to the exchange of meaningful communication across autonomous
entities, which can organize and use information heterogeneously.  The
purpose of the workshop is therefore to gather contributions that (i)
take seriously into account the ontological aspects of communication
and interaction and (ii) use formal ontologies for achieving a better
semantic coordination between interacting and communicating agents.

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WORKSHOP TOPICS

We encourage contributions concerning the two main areas listed below
with a particular attention to explore the interplay between
ontological analysis and its applications in practical cases.

* Ontological aspects of interaction and communication
	- Ontological analysis of interaction and communication
	- Studies on the structure and coherence of interaction
      	- Logical models for communicative acts
	- Primitives of interaction and communication
	- Formal semantics of dialogue

	
*Semantic coordination through formal ontologies
	- Dialogue semantics and formal ontology
	- Dynamic ontology sharing
	- Ontological primitives for meaning negotiation, ontological  
          alignment and semantic interoperability
    	- Ontology evolution through communication
    	- Concrete problems and experiences in terminological  
          disambiguation and integration
	


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SUBMISSION DETAILS:

Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract describing original
contributions to the workshop topics.  Submissions should range
between 3 and 5 pages.

The following formats are accepted: .doc, .tex, .pdf (please, always
include source files).

Please send your submission electronically to the following email
address:

esslli06 at loa-cnr.it

by the deadline listed below.  The submissions will be reviewed by the
workshop's programme committee and additional reviewers.  The accepted
papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published by
ESSLLI. The format for the final version will be .pdf.  A selection of
the best papers accepted at the workshop will be considered for
publication in the international journal 'Applied Ontology'
(http://www.applied-ontology.org/).

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WORKSHOP FORMAT:

The workshop is part of ESSLLI and is open to all ESSLLI participants.
It will consist of five 90-minute sessions held over five consecutive
days in the first week of ESSLLI.  There will be 2 or 3 slots for
paper presentation and discussion per session.  On the first day the
workshop organizers will give an introduction to the topic.

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IMPORTANT DATES:

Submissions            : March 8, 2006
Notification       	       : April 21, 2006
Full paper deadline: May 1st, 2006
Final programme    : June 21, 2006
Workshop Dates     : July 31 - August 4, 2006

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WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE: (tentative)

Thomas ADDIS (University of  
Portsmouth)	http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/addist/tom.html
Nicholas ASHER (University of Texas, Austin,  
USA)		http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/philosophy/faculty/asher/ 
main.html
John BATEMAN (University of Bremen,  
Germany)	http://www-user.uni-bremen.de/~bateman/
Paolo BOUQUET (University of Trento,  
Italy)	http://dit.unitn.it/~bouquet/
Scott FARRAR (University of Bremen,  
Germany)	http://www.u.arizona.edu/~farrar/
Roberta FERRARIO (LOA-ISTC, CNR, Trento,  
Italy)	http://www.loa-cnr.it/ferrario.html
Aldo GANGEMI (LOA-ISTC, CNR, Roma,  
Italy)	http://www.loa-cnr.it/gangemi.html
Nicola GUARINO (LOA-ISTC, CNR, Trento,  
Italy)	http://www.loa-cnr.it/guarino.html
Andreas HERZIG (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse,  
France)	http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/LILaC/Pers/Herzig/
Joris HULSTIJN (Utrecht University, the  
Nehterlands)	http://www.cs.vu.nl/~joris/
Kepa KORTA	(Universidad del Pais Vasco,  
Spain)	http://www.sc.ehu.es/ylwkocak/kepa.html
Laurent PREVOT (Academia Sinica, Taipei,  
Taiwan)		http://www.loa-cnr.it/prevot.html
Matt PURVER (CSLI, Stanford, USA)	 http://www.stanford.edu/~mpurver/
William RAPAPORT (University of Buffalo,  
USA)	http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/
Johan VAN BENTHEM (University of Amsterdam, the  
Netherlands)	http://staff.science.uva.nl/~johan/
Rogier VAN EIJK (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)  
http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/rogier/
Laure VIEU (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse,  
France)	http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/LILaC/Pers/Vieu/


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LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS:

All workshop participants including the presenters will be required to
register for ESSLLI.  The registration fee for authors presenting a
paper will correspond to the early student/workshop speaker
registration fee.  Moreover, a number of additional fee waiver grants
might be made available by the local organizing committee on a
competitive basis and workshop participants are eligible to apply for
those.

There will be no reimbursement for travel costs or accommodation.
Workshop speakers who have difficulty in finding funding should
contact the local organizing committee to ask for the possibilities of
a grant.



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FURTHER INFORMATION:

About the workshop: http://www.loa-cnr.it/esslli06/
   About ESSLLI: http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es/
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