<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">*** Apologies for cross-posting ***</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">FOIS 2023: Call for Papers</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://fois2023.griis.ca" class="">http://fois2023.griis.ca</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For any questions, please <a href="mailto:fois2023@gmail.com" class="">email: fois2023@gmail.com</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Definition and scope</div><div class="">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><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA: <a href="http://iaoa.org/" class="">http://iaoa.org/</a>), which is a non-profit organization promoting interdisciplinary research and international collaboration in formal ontology.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Important dates</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Paper submission deadline: 31 January 2023</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Author rebuttal period: March 24-31, 2023 (tentative)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Notifications: April 10, 2023 (tentative)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Camera-ready papers: May 1, 2023</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Onsite conference: July 17-20, 2023</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Virtual conference: week of September 18, 2023</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Location</div><div class="">FOIS 2023 will consist of a physical meeting and a virtual meeting: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• 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 class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• 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><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Submissions</div><div class="">FOIS 2023 seeks three types of full-length (14 pages) high-quality papers on a wide range of topics:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Foundational papers address content-related ontological issues, their formal representation, and their relevance to some aspect of information systems.</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• 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 class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• 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><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please refer to the Submissions Instructions on the FOIS 2023 website for more details. As usual, the FOIS proceedings will be published by IOS Press.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Topics of interest</div><div class="">Areas of particular interest to FOIS include the following:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Foundational Issues</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Kinds of entities: particulars/universals, continuants/occurrents, abstracta/concreta, dependent entities/independent entities, natural objects/artifacts, events/processes</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Formal relations: parthood, identity, connection, dependence, constitution, causality, subsumption, instantiation</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Vagueness and granularity</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Space, time, and change</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Methodological issues</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Top-level vs. domain-specific ontologies</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Role of reference ontologies</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Ontology similarity, integration, alignment, matching and entity reconciliation</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Ontology modularity, patterns, and contextuality</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Ontology evaluation, quality, reuse, adaptation, and evolution</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Ontology compliance with FAIR principles</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Formal comparison among ontologies</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Relationship between conceptual modeling and ontologies</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Relationship with cognition, language, semantics, and context</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Connections between knowledge graphs and ontologies</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Methodological issues in the applications of ontologies</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Social issues, such as trust or bias, with respect to ontologies </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Applications</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Technical applications of ontologies, such as</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Semantic Web</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Other areas of AI (Machine Learning, Explainable AI, Rules)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Qualitative modeling</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Systems applications of ontologies, such as</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Ontology-driven information systems design</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Ontology-based data access</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Knowledge management</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Information retrieval</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Computational linguistics</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Metadata management</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Domain applications of ontologies, such as</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Ontologies for business modeling</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Ontologies for particular scientific disciplines (biology, chemistry, geography, physics, geoscience, cognitive sciences, linguistics, etc.)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Ontologies for engineering: shape, form and function, artifacts, manufacturing, design, architecture, etc.</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Ontologies for the humanities: arts, cultural studies, history, literature, philosophy, etc.</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Ontologies for the social sciences: economics, law, political science, anthropology, archeology, etc.</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Ontologies for Open Science and dataset sharing</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Domain-specific ontologies</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Ontology of physical reality (matter, space, time, motion, etc.)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Ontology of biological reality (organisms, genes, proteins, cells, etc.)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Ontology of mental reality and agency (beliefs, intentions, emotions, perceptions, cognition, etc.)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Ontology of artifacts, functions, capacities and roles</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Ontology of social reality (institutions, organizations, norms, social relationships, artistic expressions, etc.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Conference Organization</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">General Chair: </div><div class="">Antony Galton, University of Exeter, UK</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">PC Chairs: </div><div class="">Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT-CNRS Toulouse, France</div><div class="">Torsten Hahmann, University of Maine, USA</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Local Organization Chair: </div><div class="">Jean-François Ethier, University of Sherbrooke, Canada </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Online Chair: </div><div class="">Cassia Trojahn, IRIT Université Toulouse 2, France</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Workshop and Tutorial Chairs:</div><div class="">Megan Katsumi, University of Toronto, Canada</div><div class="">Emilio Sanfilippo, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Early Career Chairs:</div><div class="">Antoine Zimmermann, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne (EMSE), France</div><div class="">Guendalina Righetti, Free University Bozen/Bolzano, Italy</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Demo & Showcase Chairs: </div><div class="">Sergio de Cesare, University of Westminster, UK</div><div class="">Tiago Prince Sales, University of Twente, Netherlands </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Publicity Chairs: </div><div class="">Lucia Gomez Alvarez, TU Dresden, Germany</div><div class="">Selja Seppälä, University College Cork, Ireland</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Proceedings Chair:</div><div class="">Maria Hedblom, Jönköping University, Sweden</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>