<div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">(Apologies for potential cross-posting)</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:19px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>11th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2020)</b></span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:22px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">September 14-17, 2020, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(66,1,120);font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="text-decoration-line:underline;font-kerning:none"><a href="https://fois2020.inf.unibz.it/" target="_blank">https://<span style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(0,0,233)">fois</span>2020.inf.unibz.it/</a></span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Update for deadline and organisation of FOIS:</b></span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Responding to the current health crisis, the new submission deadline has been set to </b></span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:19px;line-height:normal"><b>May 13</b></span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:20px;line-height:normal"><b>.</b></span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(40,40,40);font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:22px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><b><font color="#000000">Please note further</font><font color="#282828">:</font></b></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(40,40,40);font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:normal">– The organisation team of FOIS 2020 is committed to publishing the FOIS proceedings with IOS Press in 2020.</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(40,40,40);font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:normal">– FOIS will happen as a face-to-face event in Bolzano when it is safe to travel. Ideally, in September 2020 but otherwise at a later date in 2021.</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(40,40,40);font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:normal">– Physical attendance of authors of accepted papers at FOIS will be optional.</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(40,40,40);font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:22px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(11,99,221);font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(251,0,7)"><b>See announcement COVID-19 for future updates:</b></span><span style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(40,40,40)"><b> </b></span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(11,99,221);font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(40,40,40)"><a href="https://fois2020.inf.unibz.it/announcement-covid-19/" target="_blank"><span style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(11,99,221)"><b>https://fois2020.inf.unibz.it/announcement-covid-19/</b></span></a></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:16px;color:rgb(40,40,40);font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:19px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">-----------------------------------</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">DEFINITION AND SCOPE</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">-----------------------------------</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">The advent of complex information systems that rely on robust, coherent and formal representations of their subject matter, has led to the exploitation of ontological analysis and ontology-based representation. The systematic study of such analysis and representation is at the center of the modern discipline of formal ontology, which is a general theory of the types of entities and relations making up domains of interest.</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">Researchers in many domains engage with formal ontology to provide a solid foundation for their work. Common application areas include conceptual modeling, database design, knowledge engineering and management, software engineering, organizational modeling, artificial intelligence, robotics, computational linguistics, the life sciences, bioinformatics and scientific research in general, geographic information science, information retrieval, library and information science, and the Semantic Web.</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">The FOIS conference is a meeting point for all researchers with an interest in formal ontology. The conference encourages new high quality submissions on both theoretical issues and concrete applications. As in previous years, FOIS 2020 aims to be a nexus of interdisciplinary research and communication.</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA: <a href="http://iaoa.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(0,0,233)">http://iaoa.org/</span></a>), which is a non-profit organization promoting interdisciplinary research and international collaboration in formal ontology.  </span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">------------------------------</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">FORMAT</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">------------------------------</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>FOIS 2020 includes a number of activities:</b></span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* FOIS conference (single track program)</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* workshops (in conjunction with EKAW 2020 and ICBO 2020)</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* tutorials (in conjunction with EKAW 2020 and ICBO 2020)</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* a young researchers symposium</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* a demo and industry track</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* an ontology show and tell</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">-----------------------------</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">IMPORTANT DATES</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">-----------------------------</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b></b></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Call for papers</b></span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Paper Submission Deadline: 13 May 2020</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Notification: 20 July 2020</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Conference Dates (tentative): 14-17 September 2020</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;min-height:17px"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b></b></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(26,26,26);text-align:justify;font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-kerning:none">------------------------------</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">SUBMISSIONS</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">------------------------------</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">FOIS seeks full-length high-quality papers on a wide range of topics. An ideal FOIS paper will address both content-related ontological issues, their formal representation, as well as their impact and relevance for some aspect of information systems. Please refer to the FOIS submissions page for submission details. As usual, the FOIS proceedings will be published by IOS Press.</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">Related activities, such as workshops and tutorials, may specify different submission formats, for example, short papers or posters. Please refer to the relevant related activity page (forthcoming) for submission and publication details.</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">------------------------------</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">TOPICS OF INTEREST</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">------------------------------</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b></b></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Areas of particular interest to FOIS include the following:</b></span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Foundational Issues</b></span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Kinds of entities: particulars/universals, continuants/occurrents, abstracta/concreta, dependent entities/independent entities, natural objects/artifacts</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Formal relations: parthood, identity, connection, dependence, constitution, causality, subsumption, instantiation</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Vagueness and granularity</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Space, time, and change</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Methodological issues</b></span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Top-level vs. domain-specific ontologies</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Role of reference ontologies</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Ontology similarity, integration and alignment</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Ontology modularity, contextuality, and evolution</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Formal comparison among ontologies</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Relationship with cognition, language, semantics, context</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Domain-specific ontologies</b></span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Ontology of physical reality (matter, space, time, motion etc.)</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Ontology of biological reality (organisms, genes, proteins, cells etc.)</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Ontology of mental reality and agency (beliefs, intentions, emotions, perceptions, cognition,  etc.)</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Ontology of artifacts, functions, capacities and roles</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Ontology of social reality (institutions, organizations, norms, social relationships, artistic expressions etc.)</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Applications</b></span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Ontology-driven information systems design</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Ontological foundations for conceptual modeling</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Knowledge management</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Qualitative modeling</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Computational linguistics</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Information retrieval</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Semantic Web</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Business modeling</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Ontologies and Machine Learning</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Ontologies and Explainable AI</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Ontologies for particular scientific disciplines (biology, chemistry, geography, physics, geoscience, cognitive sciences, linguistics etc.)</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Ontologies for engineering: shape, form and function, artifacts, manufacturing, design, architecture etc.</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Ontologies for the humanities: arts, cultural studies, history, literature, philosophy, etc.</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Ontologies for the social sciences: economics, law, political science, anthropology, archeology, etc.</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">--------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">CONFERENCE ORGANISATION</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">--------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b></b></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>General Chair</b></span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Roberta Ferrario (ISTC CNR, Trento, Italy)</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Program Chairs</b></span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Boyan Brodaric (Geological Survey of Canada, Canada)</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Fabian Neuhaus (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany)</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Local Organization</b></span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Oliver Kutz (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Nicolas Troquard (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Publicity Chair</b></span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Guendalina Righetti (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Maria Hedblom (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Proceedings Chair</b></span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Megan Katsumi (University of Toronto) </span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Workshop / Tutorial Chairs</b></span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Torsten Hahmann (University of Maine)</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Claudio Masolo (ISTC CNR, Trento, Italy)</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Ontology Show and Tell</b></span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Michael Gruninger (University of Toronto)</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Frank Loebe (University of Leipzig)</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Early Career Symposium</b></span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Pawel Garbacz (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin)</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Selja Seppala (University College Cork)</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Demo and Industrial Track Chair</b></span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Robert Hoehndorf (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(24,24,23);font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-kerning:none">* Amanda Vizedom (Credit Suisse)</span></div></div>