FOIS 2012 - 7th International Conference on Formal Ontologies in Information Systems (FOIS 2012)

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Deadline: January 31, 2012 | Date: July 24, 2012-July 27, 2012

Venue/Country: Graz, Austria

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Call For Papers - CFP

(FOIS 2012)

held together with the 3rd International Conference on Biomedical

Ontology (ICBO 2012), July, 24-27, 2012 in Graz, Austria

http://purl.org/icbofois2012

DEFINITION AND SCOPE

Ontology, originally a fundamental part of philosophical enquiry, is

concerned with the analysis and categorization of what exists. In recent

years, however, a complementary focus of ontological inquiry gained

significant momentum fueled by the advent of complex information systems

which rely on robust and coherent representations of their subject

matter. The systematic study of such representations, their reasoning

techniques and their relations to reality, are at the center of the

modern discipline of formal ontology.

Formal ontology in this modern sense is now a research focus in such

diverse domains as conceptual modeling, database design, software

engineering, organizational modeling, artificial intelligence,

computational linguistics, the life sciences, bioinformatics, geographic

information science, knowledge engineering, information retrieval, and

the semantic web. Researchers in all these areas increasingly recognize

the need for serious engagement with ontology, understood as a general

theory of the types of entities and relations making up their respective

domains of enquiry, in providing a solid foundation for their work.

The FOIS conference is designed to provide a meeting point for

researchers from all disciplines with an interest in formal ontology.

The conference encourages submission of high quality articles on both

theoretical issues and concrete applications. As in previous years, FOIS

2012 is intended as a nexus of interdisciplinary research and communication.

The FOIS conference series began with the first meeting in Trento, Italy

in June 1998 followed by meetings in 2001, 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2010.

The seventh FOIS conference will be held in Graz, Austria July 24-27,

2012, in conjunction with the 3rd International Conference on Biomedical

Ontology (ICBO 2012).

FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for

Ontology and its Applications (IAOA),

which is a non-profit organization the purpose of which is 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.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

We seek high-quality papers on a wide range of topics. While authors may

focus on fairly narrow and specific issues, all papers should emphasize

the relevance of the work described to formal ontology and to

information systems. Papers that completely ignore one or the other of

these aspects will be considered as lying outside the scope of the

meeting. Topic areas of particular interest to the conference are:

Foundational Issues

* Kinds of entity: particulars/universals, continuants/occurrents,

abstracta/concreta, dependent entities/independent entities, natural

objects/artifacts

* Formal relations: parthood, identity, connection, dependence,

constitution, subsumption, instantiation

* Vagueness and granularity

* Identity and change

* Formal comparison among ontologies

* Ontology of physical reality (matter, space, time, motion, ...)

* Ontology of biological reality (genes, proteins, cells, organisms, ...)

* Ontology of artifacts, functions and roles

* Ontology of mental reality and agency (beliefs, intentions, emotions, ...)

* Ontology of social reality (institutions, organizations, norms,

social relationships, artistic expressions, ...)

* Ontology of the information society (information, communication,

meaning negotiation, ...)

* Ontology and Natural Language Semantics, Ontology and Cognition

Methodologies and Applications

* Top-level vs application ontologies

* Ontology integration and alignment; role of reference ontologies

* Ontology-driven information systems design

* Ontological foundations for conceptual modeling

* Ontology-based application systems

* Requirements engineering

* Knowledge engineering

* Knowledge management and organization

* Knowledge representation; Qualitative modeling

* Computational lexicons; Terminology

* Information retrieval; Question-answering

* Semantic web; Web services; Grid computing

* Domain-specific ontologies, especially for: Biomedical science,

E-business,

Enterprise integration, Engineering, Geography, Law, Library science,

Linguistics, ...

IMPORTANT DATES

We are calling for papers to be considered for inclusion in FOIS 2012.

Paper Submission Deadline: January 31, 2012

Notification: March 8, 2012

Camera-Ready Deadline for accepted papers: March 24, 2012

Conference Dates: July, 24-27, 2012

CONFERENCE ORGANISATION

Conference chair: Michael Gruninger (University of Toronto, Canada)

Program chairs: Maureen Donnelly (University at Buffalo, USA) and

Giancarlo Guizzardi (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil)

Local organization: Stephan Schulz (Gratz University, Austria)