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<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Call for papers: FOIS 2023</div>
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<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">13th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2023), July 17-20, 2023 (Sherbrooke, QC, Canada) and Sept 18-20, 2023 (Online)</div>
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General information regarding the 13th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2023) in Sherbrooke.</div>
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<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Definition and scope</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">The FOIS conference is a meeting point for all researchers with an interest in formal ontology. Formal ontology is the systematic study of the types of entities and relations making up the domains of interest
represented in modern information systems. The conference encourages submission of high quality, not previously published results on both theoretical issues and practical advancements. FOIS 2023 will have distinct tracks for foundational issues, ontology applications
and methods, and domain ontologies.</div>
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<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">FOIS aims to be a nexus of interdisciplinary research and communication for researchers from many domains engaging with formal ontology. 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, as well as the Semantic Web.</div>
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<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA: <a href="http://iaoa.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://iaoa.org/&source=gmail&ust=1669122452335000&usg=AOvVaw05YVSvmPxs7M-i90p22IxZ" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(26, 115, 232);">http://iaoa.org/</a>),
which is a non-profit organization promoting interdisciplinary research and international collaboration in formal ontology.</div>
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<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Important dates</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Paper submission deadline: 31 January 2023</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Author rebuttal period: March 24-31, 2023 (tentative)</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Notifications: April 10, 2023 (tentative)</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Camera-ready papers: May 1, 2023</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Onsite conference: July 17-20, 2023</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Virtual conference: week of September 18, 2023</div>
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<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">The submission deadline for workshops will be after the notifications to allow authors to submit a revised version of rejected papers to any of the conference workshops if the paper topics are appropriate
for this workshop.</div>
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<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Location</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">FOIS 2023 will consist of a physical meeting and a virtual meeting: </div>
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<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• An in-person only meeting in Sherbrooke, Quebec from July 17 to 21, 2023 that will be very much like a traditional conference with keynotes, regular talks, workshops and tutorials and plenty of social
and networking opportunities. This part will not have a remote participation option, but we plan on recording selected talks (e.g. keynotes). </div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• This will be followed by an online part to be held from September 18 to 20, 2023 that offers an opportunity for presentation and discussion of additional papers that were not presented at the physical
meeting in Sherbrooke. </div>
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<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Submissions</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">FOIS 2023 seeks three types of full-length (14 pages) high-quality papers on a wide range of topics:</div>
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<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Foundational papers address content-related ontological issues, their formal representation, and their relevance to some aspect of information systems.</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Application and Methods papers address novel systems, methods, and tools related to building, evaluating, or using ontologies, emphasizing the impact of ontology contents.</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Domain ontology papers describe a novel ontology for a specific realm of interest, clarifying ontological choices against requirements and foundational theory, and showing ontology use.</div>
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<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Please refer to the Submissions Instructions (coming soon) for more details. As usual, the FOIS proceedings will be published by IOS Press.</div>
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<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Topics of interest</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Areas of particular interest to FOIS include the following:</div>
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<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Foundational Issues</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Kinds of entities: particulars/universals, continuants/occurrents, abstracta/concreta, dependent entities/independent entities, natural objects/artifacts, events/processes</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Formal relations: parthood, identity, connection, dependence, constitution, causality, subsumption, instantiation</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Vagueness and granularity</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Space, time, and change</div>
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<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Methodological issues</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Top-level vs. domain-specific ontologies</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Role of reference ontologies</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Ontology similarity, integration, alignment, matching and entity reconciliation</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Ontology modularity, patterns, and contextuality</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Ontology evaluation, quality, reuse, adaptation, and evolution</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Ontology compliance with FAIR principles</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Formal comparison among ontologies</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Relationship between conceptual modeling and ontologies</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Relationship with cognition, language, semantics, and context</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Connections between knowledge graphs and ontologies</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Methodological issues in the applications of ontologies</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Social issues, such as trust or bias, with respect to ontologies </div>
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<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Applications</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Technical applications of ontologies, such as</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Semantic Web</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Other areas of AI (Machine Learning, Explainable AI, Rules)</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Qualitative modeling</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Systems applications of ontologies, such as</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Ontology-driven information systems design</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Ontology-based data access</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Knowledge management</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Information retrieval</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Computational linguistics</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Metadata management</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Domain applications of ontologies, such as</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Ontologies for business modeling</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Ontologies for particular scientific disciplines (biology, chemistry, geography, physics, geoscience, cognitive sciences, linguistics, etc.)</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Ontologies for engineering: shape, form and function, artifacts, manufacturing, design, architecture, etc.</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Ontologies for the humanities: arts, cultural studies, history, literature, philosophy, etc.</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Ontologies for the social sciences: economics, law, political science, anthropology, archeology, etc.</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Ontologies for Open Science and dataset sharing</div>
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<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Domain-specific ontologies</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Ontology of physical reality (matter, space, time, motion, etc.)</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Ontology of biological reality (organisms, genes, proteins, cells, etc.)</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Ontology of mental reality and agency (beliefs, intentions, emotions, perceptions, cognition, etc.)</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Ontology of artifacts, functions, capacities and roles</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">• Ontology of social reality (institutions, organizations, norms, social relationships, artistic expressions, etc.)</div>
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<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Conference Organization</div>
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<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">General Chair: </div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Antony Galton, University of Exeter, UK</div>
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<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">PC Chairs: </div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT-CNRS Toulouse, France</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Torsten Hahmann, University of Maine, USA</div>
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<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Local Organization Chair: </div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Jean-François Ethier, University of Sherbrooke, Canada </div>
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<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Online Chair: </div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Cassia Trojahn, IRIT Université Toulouse 2, France</div>
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<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Workshop and Tutorial Chairs:</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Megan Katsumi, University of Toronto, Canada</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Emilio Sanfilippo, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy</div>
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<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Early Career Chairs:</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Antoine Zimmermann, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne (EMSE), France</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Guendalina Righetti, Free University Bozen/Bolzano, Italy</div>
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<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Demo & Showcase Chairs: </div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Sergio de Cesare, University of Westminster, UK</div>
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<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Publicity Chairs: </div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Lucia Gomez Alvarez, TU Dresden, Germany</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Selja Seppälä, University College Cork, Ireland</div>
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